I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends… — 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 judicial decision-making process to have mudslinging by judges, but the way that we hobble people of… — 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
