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« God Bless Gerald Ford | Main | Good Riddance » December 27, 2006Real Judicial IndependenceA Circuit Court judge in St. Louis will soon find out whether Justice O'Connor's continued alarms of diminished judicial independence are true. St. Louis Circuit Court judge Robert Dierker's new book, The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault, is to be released next week. Portions of the book have been circulating on the net for weeks, and some find the book's tone (such as a chapter title of "The Cloud Cuckooland of Radical Feminism") hard to swallow. According to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, Judge Dierker is not terribly concerned: it will be another six years before his name comes before St. Louis voters again. This book may go the way of Mark Levin's Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America, which, although very popular, lacked serious academic engagement. Perhaps the book will strike a different note altogether, attempting to assess judicial ills from the more bucolic perspective of state courts. Either way, Judge Dierker's imbroglio serves as a candid rebuff to the trope of "judicial elections good, judicial nomination commissions bad." Posted by Seth Zirkle at December 27, 2006 06:24 PM CommentsHow about the Kansas judge who, as in Indiana, is perverting his role in order to shield child predators? Posted by: Anonymous at December 29, 2006 01:24 PM | permalink Posted by: Anonymous at December 30, 2006 12:08 AM | permalink Post a comment |
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