Article
Public Confidence And Judicial Campaigns
Wayne Law Review
(2010)
Abstract
My purpose in this essay is to evaluate one of the alternative grounds suggested by Professor Geyh: that the elimination of judicial elections and limits on judicial candidates’ speech can be defended as means of "preserv[ing] public confidence in the courts." Such confidence is necessary, the argument goes, because the people would refuse to "acquiesce[] in the orderly administration of justice" if they believed that judges were deciding cases on the basis of their own preferences (or the electorate’s) rather than on the law.
Keywords
- judges,
- judicial selection,
- political speech,
- elections
Disciplines
- Constitutional Law,
- Judges and
- Law
Publication Date
2010
Citation Information
Michael R Dimino. "Public Confidence And Judicial Campaigns" Wayne Law Review Vol. 56 (2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_dimino/14/