Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Court Wars: For people interested in following the politics of advancing an independent, yet accountable judicial system in the United States, we recommend you subscribe to GavelGrab. Recent entries range from the call for a judge to recuse herself in the Rahm Emanual residency dispute, to a review of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s speech to the Tea Party Caucus in Congress. GavelGrab is the blog of Justice At State, a federation of nonpartisan national and local groups promoting fair courts. You can also occasionally check in with its special page featuring entries about public campaign financing and the courts. Several recent entries provide updates on judicial public financing programs now beginning in Wisconsin and West Virginia, as well as ours in North Carolina.