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Independence and Accountability in State Judicial Selection
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Independence and Accountability in State Judicial Selection THE PEOPLE'S COURTS: PURSUING JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN AMERICA. By Jed Handelsman Shugerman. Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 2012. 400 pages. $35.00.
Although in designing governing institutions American state constitution makers have deviated from various arrangements in place in the U.S. Constitution, state-level departures have been nowhere more extensive or important than regarding judicial selection. Some states follow the federal approach in vesting the power of appointing judges in the governor, generally with a requirement of legislative confirmation.1 In a couple of states the legislature makes …
