Showing posts with label judicial ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label judicial ethics. Show all posts
Monday, September 4, 2023

On Trump’s Eligibility to Run for President: Who Decides?

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The 14 th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “bans anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution but who subsequently ‘engaged in insu...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

On the Role of Partisan Political Ideology in the U.S. Supreme Court

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Observing a pattern of sustained ideological proclivities in the decisions of justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, The New York Times edito...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The Case for a Presiding President in Russia

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On December 31, 2010, a Russian judge sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who had been imprisoned in 2003 after defying Vla...
Friday, January 4, 2019

A Gay Judge on California's Anti-Marriage Proposition in 2010: A Judicial Conflict of Interest?

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In 2010, Chief Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker issued a ruling that declared Proposition 8 (against gay marriage) an unconstitutional...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Judicial Ethics: Friendship and Philanthropy

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Harlan Crow was a Dallas real estate magnate and a major contributor to conservative causes. He did many favors for his friend, Clarence T...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Juggling the Court and the Constitution: Chief Justice Roberts

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Charles Krauthammer proffers a pithy summation of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice’s majority opinion on Obama’s health-insurance law o...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Paper Tigers: Firewalls Forestalling Institutional Conflicts of Interest

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Structural, or institutional, conflicts of interest are of great significance in applied ethics, even though they often play second fiddle...