{"id":38817,"date":"2018-10-05T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=38817"},"modified":"2018-10-05T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:04:27","slug":"did-you-know-how-judges-can-be-pressured-politically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=38817","title":{"rendered":"Did you know how judges can be pressured politically?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call me naive but I didn’t. Not exactly.<\/p>\n

Yet just after I posted the thing about the Supreme Court<\/a>, I picked this up from the Brennan Center<\/a>, about what happened to a Michigan State Supreme Court judge (appointed by a Republican) over a major (I mean major<\/em>) case about a voter-initiated ballot proposal on redistricting, i.e., gerrymandering:<\/p>\n

STATE COURTS<\/em><\/h3>\n

Michigan Justice Says She Faced \u201cBullying and Intimidation\u201d Over Redistricting Case<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Clement said<\/a> she faced \u201cbullying and intimidation\u201d while considering a case about whether a voter-initiated redistricting proposal could go on the November ballot.<\/em>
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\nClement, appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, will face challengers to remain on the bench in November. She told The Detroit News<\/a> that \u201coutside interests\u201d seeking to block the redistricting reform proposal from the ballot pressured her as she was considering the case. Clement ultimately voted with the majority to approve the ballot measure, which was opposed by state Republicans.<\/em>
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\nAccording to The Detroit News<\/a>, following Clement\u2019s decision, \u201cthe Michigan Republican Party\u2026left her name and photo off door hangers distributed by volunteers,\u201d although the hangers listed every other statewide Republican candidate. Clement called this decision \u201cunprecedented.\u201d The Michigan Republican Party \u201cwould not say whether Clement would be excluded from future literature.\u201d<\/em>
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\nMichigan Supreme Court Justice David Viviano criticized<\/a> the pressures Clement faced, arguing, \u201cPeople are entitled to their own viewpoints on how a case should be decided. But it is inappropriate to direct those views at a member of the court while the case is being decided.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. You did notice the judge is a woman, right? Yet she persisted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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