Friday, June 21, 2024
LWV-Downeast
June 21 -- Order in the Court: Who's Your Judge?
We'll talk about the Maine judiciary. How are judges chosen in Maine? Compare Maine's judicial selection process to the federal system and to other states. What standards of judicial ethics apply? Are judges in Maine subject to undue influence by narrow special or partisan interests? Are judges in Maine facing escalating threats, the way judges are in other states? What insulates Maine? How fragile are our protections?
In case you missed the show, you can listen from the archive here.
Special Guests:
- Dmitry Bam, Vice Dean/Provost, Professor of Law, at the University of Maine School of Law
- David Sachar, Director of Judicial Ethics at the National Center for State Courts
- Leigh Saufley, President and Dean of the University of Maine School of Law, former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
To learn more about this topic:
- Judicial Nominations | Office of Governor Janet T. Mills
- Maine Judicial Branch
- State of Maine Judicial Responsibility and Disability Committee
- How to file a judicial complaint in Maine
- Can State Supreme Courts Preserve—or Expand—Rights? | The New Yorker, June 2024
- Defense attorneys, ACLU question whether new bail reviews for unrepresented defendants are working | Portland Press Herald, May 2024
- Probate court reform overdue | Editorials | ellsworthamerican.com, May 2024
- Maine officials seek suspension of Hancock County probate judge | BDN, April 2024
- Judges and Prosecutors, Targeted by Trump, Will Not Be Intimidated, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, April 2024
- Judicial Leaders Praise Federal Bill to Protect State Judges | NCSC, March 2024
- Maine's chief justice cites progress and challenges for backlogged court system | Maine Public, February 2024
- Maine's Part-Time Court | Maine Monitor, June 2023
- Maine courts may take until 2028 to touch backlog of cases | Maine Monitor, March 2023