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Judges and Judiciary

May 9, 2012

Judicial challengers should clarify reasoning

The Legislature should require judicial candidates to state explicitly why they have targeted a particular sitting judge. By Hirbod Rashidi


By Hirbod Rashidi


One day in my final year of law school, an Israeli-American friend of mine - let's call him Avishai Jacob Berkovitz - gave me a bit of advice: "You know how you and I are generally getting less interviews than the rest of our similarly situated colleagues?" (E.g., top quarter of our class, law journal or review experience, etc.) Of course I had noticed. In fact, we had both noticed that a few friends with lesser GPAs and no journal...

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