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Rule of Nine: Qualifications for the Federal Bench
Legal scholars are asked to comment on qualifications and characteristics they think are important for nominees to the federal bench. Douglas Kmiec favors nominees who are "learned in the law and...capable, based on experience and temperament and in...
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Rule of Nine: Judicial Independence
The fact that judges and justices are chosen through a partisan political process should not be interpreted to mean that they engage in blatant partisanship while on the bench. As officers of the court, a separate branch of government, they prize th...