does anyone have recs for recent books/articles on right-wing moves to take over state & federal courts?
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Replying to @AriBrostoff
i feel like
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which is more or less summarized and simplified here https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/how-conservatives-won-the-battle-over-the-courts/564533/ …
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thanks! I’ve been reading the Teles book and finding it very helpful. I’ll look at the TNR article.
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also much of the pro-electing judges scholarship (as by Chris Bonneau, Melinda Hall, et al.) is implicitly about this, since it's underwritten by conservative interests who are interested in winning state judicial elections. there's a whole academic industry built on this
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oh interesting. is there a counter-scholarship from the other side? The teles has been really helpful but I’m trying to get closer to the present moment
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sure, there's an entire set of interests devoted to battling against judicial elections. one of the most prominent supporters of this line of thought is sandra day o'connor.https://www.lambdalegal.org/justice-out-of-balance/judicial-elections …
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a lot of the professors and nonprofits lining up against judicial elections might be categorized as liberal/lefthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/judicial-elections-are-a-messheres-how-to-fix-the-problem?ref=scroll …
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