Underneath Their Robes: Political Grandstanding?

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor doesn't think too highly of elected judges.

I think there are many who think of judges as politicians in robes. In many states, that’s what they are.

— Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, criticizing the election of judges as she delivered the Rudolf G. Schade Lecture on History, Ethics and Law at Elmhurst College.

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