Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is by now heading to a federal prison in Kentucky, where he’ll be wearing an orange jumpsuit and doing good works like clearing trash along our nation’s highways. Following his sentence of five years in prison, you’d think the worst is over for the King of Torts.
But Dickie has had a […]

On August 7, Tennessee voters can head to the polls to lodge an up-or-down vote on two state Supreme Court justices and five appeals court judges, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
These so-called retention elections are often promoted by advocates of “merit” selection as a means to give the public a voice in determining who sits […]

A good roundup at domemagazine.com of the fallout from the discredited plot to rig Michigan’s political rules “to help Democrats.”  Among the collateral damage:

“It [the court packing/redistricting rigging scheme] has already led to talk of replacing Party Chair Mark Brewer, been responsible for knocking out their [Democrats’] top-choice candidate to challenge the incumbent Supreme Court chief justice, […]

The Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce just launched an amazing new interactive website that slickly documents the “stealth campaign” by the trial lawyer lobby to open up new avenues of litigation and further clog our courts with abusive lawsuits.
Among the dozens and dozens of trial lawyer earmarks identified by the ILR:

legislation that would expose […]

Opponents of democratic judicial elections seem worried about a new American Justice Partnership Foundation poll that revealed an overwhelming 75% of Americans believe state judges should be elected. They know they’ve got a losing hand and can’t attack the results – so they attack the poll and the pollster.
I’ve already responded to the personal […]

Earlier I posted an item about the $1.6 billion tax cut for trial lawyers secretly slipped by Democratic leaders into a House tax bill. But it turns out that this was just the tip of the iceberg. An article in Sunday’s Washington Examiner details the legislative payoff the new Democratic Congress is delivering […]

The Chicago Tribune had a thumbsucker over the weekend on the politicization of America’s judiciary that pushed the usual storyline: Americans are “largely clueless” about the judiciary, providing an opening for “special interest lobbies” to have undue influence over the judicial selection process. The recent election defeat of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis […]

Well, at least now we know. The Lansing State Journal reports today the Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm thinks “there are a lot of good ideas” in a proposed amendment to rewrite Michigan’s Constitution and she won’t oppose it.
This is the same ballot initiative that was denounced by the Detroit News as a raw […]

Since his election in 2002, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has labored to bring jobs to his state by making it a better place to do business.
One of Gov. Sanford’s biggest, ongoing battles has been with the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission. Unlike similar commissions in most other states, this SC commission has not been […]

On July 15, we posted the results of a public opinion survey commissioned by the American Justice Partnership Foundation which revealed that an overwhelming 75% of Americans believe state Supreme Court justices should be elected by the people.
Today, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts – a group funded by George Soros which is fighting to take away […]