Perspective
Apr. 21, 2011
Global Warming Isn't the Real Issue
Some 224 years after ratification of the Constitution, debates continue over the proper role of the judiciary. By Anthony T. Caso of Chapman University School of Law.
The recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election between incumbent Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg has the country focused on judicial elections, as well it should be. Most of the commentary, however, has been on whether we should vote on judges and not why. The New York Times opined that U.S. Supreme Court justices ought instead to be selected by a "merit commission" - an idea that the Times
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