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The Supreme Court is in a tough spot in Caperton v. A.T. Massey. The legal claim here is that Americans have a due-process right to a judicial system untainted by the appearance or likelihood of bias. And appearances alone are sometimes enough. Indeed, the facts here are so completely grotesque, they cause the usually mild-mannered John Paul Stevens to proclaim: "We have never confronted a case as extreme as this before. This fits the standard that Potter ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
One party's key constituency is the super rich. Perhaps the appointees from that party should recuse themselves from this supreme court case. Would we get a 4-0 decision? We need publicly financed elections, especially of judges.