Reflections of a Survivor of State Judicial Election Warfare


 

Publication Date: June 2001

Publisher: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Center for Legal Policy

Author(s): Robert Young

Research Area: Justice; Politics

Keywords: judicial selection; state supreme court elections; Michigan supreme court

Type: Report

Coverage: Michigan

Abstract:

In this report, Justice Young, of the Michigan Supreme Court, discusses how activist judicial philosophy has transformed American courts into 'mini-legislatures,' where political activists petition judges to enact novel social policies.