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TP: I came in at a time when no Republican was supposed to win down-ballot. It's easy now for somebody. You just have to get the party to endorse you and make sure that for some reason the straight-ticket vote doesn't cross over and X your name out, and you're going to win as the Republican nominee. I think that's easy but I don't think it's as good for a judge, because I clearly had to enunciate my message in a way that would build a coalition that was not going to be present at the top of the ticket. So I think my credentials as someone who's against partisan judicial elections are pretty strong... My campaign in '88 allowed me to exercise that nonpartisan feeling to the fullest, because it was necessary to do that to win.
TP: Taken together, the [contribution] limits were fairly gene...
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In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson's great-great-great-grandfather was sold.
Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas' Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state's first Latina justice.
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SAN ANTONIO
In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson's great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas' Supreme Court.
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Cynthia Gray, Director AJS Center for Judicial Ethics James J. Alfini, President and Dean South Texas College of Law Honorable Dana Fabe, Chief Justice Alaska Supreme Court Gerald Stern, Special Counsel to the New York Judicial Institute Honorable David J. Waxse, U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court Kansas City, Kansas Cynthia Gray: I noticed as I was teaching and reading how often the issue of impartiality came up in every different context of the Code of Judicial Conduct. Even though judges may have certain moral values and political views, these values should be informed and tempered by a basic understanding and appreciation of the core democratic values, again, of the rule of law, judicial independence, and judicial impartiality.
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IN the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson's great-great grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas' Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state's first Latina justice. Rick Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history and, in his 11th year, currently the nation's senior governor, says these nominations are two of his proudest accomplishments.
French cuffs and cowboy boots are, like sauerkraut ice cream, an eclectic combination, but Perry, who wears both, is a potentially potent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination because his political creed is uneclectic, matching that of the Republican nominating electorate. He was a "10th Amendment conservative" ("The powers not delegated to the Un...
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- Washington Legal Foundation; William R. Summers; and Michael J. Mazzone, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Texas Equal Access To Justice Foundation; Richard Tate, Chairman, Texas Equal Access To Justice Foundation; Thomas R. Phillips, Chief Justice; Nathan L. Hecht, Justice; Craig Enoch, Justice; James A. Baker, Justice; Priscilla R. Owens, Justice; Greg Abbott, Justice; Deborah Hankinson, Justice; Harriet O'Neill, Justice; Supreme Court Defendants, Defendants-Appellees., 270 F.3d 180 (5th Cir. 2001)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Before WIENER, BARKSDALE, and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.
RHESA H...
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In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson's great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas' Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state's first Latina justice. Rick Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history and, in his 11th year, currently the nation's senior governor, says these nominations are two of his proudest accomplishments.
French cuffs and cowboy boots are, like sauerkraut ice cream, an eclectic combination, but Perry, who wears both, is a potentially potent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination because his political creed is uneclectic, matching that of the Republican nominating electorate. He was a "10th Amendment conservative" ("The powers not de...
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SAN ANTONIO
IN THE 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson's great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas' Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state's first Latina justice. Rick Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history and, in his 11th year, currently the nation's senior governor, says these nominations are two of his proudest accomplishments.
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In Reich v. Purcell, Chief Justice Traynor of the Supreme Court of California, a devotee of interest analysis, states, ease of determining applicable law and uniformity of rules of decision, however, must be subordinated to the objective of proper choice of law in conflict cases, i.e., to determine the law that most appropriately applies to the issue involved. After a claim arises, clear choice-of-law rules facilitate settlement and reduce the costs of litigation.16 For the same efficiency reasons, lawand-economics scholars would permit contracting parties complete freedom in choosing the law to apply to their transaction.17 Some would permit no judge-made exceptions to enforcement of choice-of-law agreements and reserve to legislatures the power to indicate what mandatory rules are no...
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... argued the cause for respondent Justices of the Washington Supreme Court. With him on the b...Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, J. Matthew Rodriquez...S. 156 (1998), a case involving the Texas IOLTA program, we held "that the interest income g...