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The Fear of Too Much Justice

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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The Importance of Electing Judges

Sandra Day O'Connor proposed an approach in Arizona to have merit selection of judges. Bright: These elections are decided often on misinformation like that, but very much on who can be the toughest on crime. The predicament that you put judges in is that if the judge does the right thing and follows the law in a case, she or he may be signing their own political death warrant.

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