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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...
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Legal Precedent: Judge's Political Beliefs, A
Judges "try to make decisions based on what they see as the law," Eugene Volokh states. "The difficulty is that sometimes the law is quite ambiguous, so the law will bind with the judge's own personal views." Judges may be the center of attention by...