2020—A divided Ninth Circuit panel rules (in Cortesluna v. Leon) that the district court wrongly determined that a police officer was entitled to qualified...
Federal judges are not elected by voters. Our constitutional process gives the president the authority to nominate federal judges and then appoint them if the Senate consents. Yet both Republican and Democratic voters place great importance on who fills open federal judgeships. Thus, the kind of judges a presidential candidate will nominate has become a […]