Bert Brandeburg, Executive Director, Justice at Stake, a non-partisan, national coalition of judicial, legal and citizen organizations whose mission is to educate the public and work for reforms to keep our judges and courtrooms free of the influence of special interests.
Tag Archive for 'judicial-system'
Cliff Williams, Law Student and participant in the Georgia Innocence Project, tells us about how he and others with the Georgia Innocence Project helped free Willie "Pete" Williams who was wrongfully convicted of a crime–22 years ago. It really makes you think about convictions based solely on witness or victim identification.
Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondence for NPR, has covered the U. S. Supreme Court for years and has intimate knowledge of how the Court works. She was the reporter responsible for breaking the Anita Hill story during the confirmation hearings of Justice Thomas. Nina shares her experiences and unique insight into this branch of our government.
Lori Ringhand, Professor of Law, University of Kentucky, evaluated all the decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1995 thru 2004. The results: she found that the "conservative" judges were more judicially active than the liberal judges. The conservatives voted to overturn federal laws more often than the liberals. How about that!
Mark Smith has written a book called "Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left’s Stranglehold on the Courts." Mark proudly declares that judges ought to be biased and ought to favor conservative positions. Mark apparently has not thought through this enough to realize that his proposal flies in the face to what our Constitution stands for. I can’t figure Mark out. He is one of the most misguided people that I have ever talked to.
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