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Lobbying – An Honorable Profession
Barack Obama campaigned on a pledge to “Change Washington” vowing to “upend the K Street Lobbying Culture.” In Annapolis Martin O’Malley…
Judicial Performance Evaluations Needed in Maryland
The link between the lack of progress toward abolishing contested judicial elections of circuit court judges and the failure of…
Judicial Evaluations and Retention Elections- The Key to Judicial Accountability
Well, not withstanding almost unanimous editorial endorsements, the leadership of Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, the high profile visit…
Abolish Circuit Court Contested Judicial Election
The “fundamental tension between the ideal character of the judicial office and the real world of electoral politics” has been…
Contested Circuit Court Judge Elections Must Go
The Attorney General of Maryland, Douglas F. Gansler announced this month that he will urge the 2010 Maryland General Assembly…
Judicial Hierarchy Must Adapt to Flattened World
Columnist and author, Thomas L. Friedman explains what he means when he says that “the world has been flattened” by…
Justice in a 21st Century Flattened World
“The World Is Flat” announced columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman in his book of the same name described on…
Problem Solving Courts By Choice or Challenge
The debate over whether the mission of the Judicial Branch of the Government should be enhanced to include a “problem-…
Problem-Solving Courts Change Mission of Judiciary
Strategically placed in one of the halls of the building housing The Administrative Office of the Courts in Annapolis is…
The Role of the Judge In Our Society is Like the Song “Blowing In The Wind”
Anytime that The Supreme Court of the United States, The Court of Appeals of Maryland, The U.S. Senate, the mainstream…