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- Title
Is justice for sale?
- Authors
BRANDENBURG, BERT
- Abstract
In this article, the author discusses the impact of political pressure in the judicial elections in the U.S. Topics discussed include views of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb on the impartial justice, money spent in judicial campaigns influences courtroom decisions and the pressure on judges to tilt against defendants instead of delivering equal justice. It also mentions that lawmakers removed the power of the Supreme Court to appoint chief district judges.
- Subjects
JUDICIAL elections; JUDICIAL selection &; appointment -- Political aspects; COBB, Sue Bell; JUSTICE; DISTRICT judges
- Publication
Judicature, 2016, Vol 100, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
0022-5800
- Publication type
Article