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by Adam Doster
10:27am
Thu Jun 26, 2008

Restoring Faith In The Justice Department

Judiciary

We briefly highlighted it yesterday, but this new report confirming the partisan hiring habits of Bush's Justice Department deserves more attention:

Justice Department officials over the last six years
illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire ...

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by Mose Buchele
11:46am
Tue Jun 17, 2008

High Marks For Illinois' High Court

Judiciary

In May, the University of Chicago Law School released a report assessing every state Supreme Court in the nation. The researchers used three metrics to rate each court's job performance: productivity (how many cases they hear), national influence (how often their opinions ...

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by Adam Doster
11:05am
Wed May 21, 2008

Scalia Likens His Views To Lincoln's

Judiciary

Speaking Tuesday night at the Centennial Celebration of the Illinois Supreme Court Building Gala Dinner, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia compared his judicial views to that of our state's most famous lawyer and legislator, Abraham Lincoln:

In a series of ...