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The League of Women Voters’ Safeguarding U.S. Democracy: Promoting an Independent Judiciary program continues to be a successful nationwide education campaign effort. Our goal is to increase citizen understanding on the importance of our nation’s system of separation of powers and highlight the vital need for protecting a fair and independent judiciary.
Contact: Zaida Arguedas, Director or David Ward, Specialist on the Judiciary and the Courts
*To Contact the League, please use the Contact Form. Choose Safeguarding U.S. Democracy from the Subject pull down menu |
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Resources
| A Fair, Impartial and Independent Judiciary
In her essay, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor shares her thoughts on the importance of a fair, impartial
and independent judiciary at the national, state and local levels. She notes that close to 98 percent of the
litigation in this country takes place in state courts, and most states select or retain their judges through
partisan or non-partisan elections. Furthermore, in many states, judicial elections have turned into expensive,
partisan political campaigns. The upcoming 2008 elections of state supreme court judges in several states
is of grave concern in this regard. Justice O’Connor admits that it will not be easy to change the systems in
those states where judges are elected, but she offers some steps that might be taken to improve the systems.
| Fair and Impartial Courts Podcast
The most recent podcast by President of the League of Women Voters, Mary Wilson, speaks about the importance of a fair and impartial judiciary.
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