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You CAN Take It With You: Judicial Candidate Evaluations into Illinois Voting Booths

45 of the candidates running in Tuesday's Cook County Illinois primary were deemed "not recommended" or "not qualified" by at least one reviewing organization, and the SunTimes wants to know how voters are supposed to discern the best candidates when they're faced with numerous options in the booth....

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What We Read, March 12-16, 2012 Judicial Elections and Judiciary Reform: Last week, the Kansas House voted to dismantle Kansas’ six-year-old commission on judicial performance. 18 states have judicial performance commissions, established by statute, court rule or state constitution. Chicago Appl...

Illinois Supreme Court Candidates Share Views on Judicial Recusal, Campaign Finance

To the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform and Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice released the responses of Illinois Supreme Court Candidates to a survey about judicial recusal standards and campaign finance reform. You can find the complete press release and survey results at our website. Only...

What We Read, March 5-9, 2012

Links of interest for this week. Don't forget to set your clocks forward this weekend! Judicial Elections and Judiciary Reform: Colorlines discusses new voter identification laws, as we head up to super Tuesday. On Wednesday this week, a court in Wisconsin temporarily blocked a new voter ident...

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What We Read, February 27-March 2, 2012 Immigration Court Reform: The 11th Circuit heard arguments on Thursday, March 1, on immigration laws in Alabama and Georgia, modeled after the notorious Arizona immigration law. The Arizona law goes before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in April. The 11th...