There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
The cliché is what are the qualifications for a federal Court of Appeals judge is somebody who knew a senator once. I mean the… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experience… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex,… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Thurgood Marshall because of his experience of discrimination did bring a special perspective to the court. That’s what his colleagues on the court so… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay and lesbian… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone. — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
