Judges and Their Audiences
A Perspective on Judicial Behavior
Chapter One
THINKING ABOUT JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR
In 1989, Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose faced an investigation of his
alleged gambling activities by major league baseball. Rose's attorneys
filed suit to block the investigation, and they steered the case to a
Cincinnati judge who faced re-election in 1990. That judge, Norbert
Nadel, allowed his announcement of a decision to be televised. When he
"started the hearing with a microphone check," according to one writer,
"you knew Pete Rose had the home-court advantage" (Cleveland Plain
Dealer 1989). Indeed, the ruling gave Rose what he wanted. (Cincinnati
Enquirer 1989)
As George W. Bush ran for president in 2000, commentators speculated
about possible candidates for Bush appointments to the Supreme Court.
J. Harvie Wilkinson and J. Michael Luttig, two subjects of the
speculation, sat on the federal court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit
in Virginia. In two cases decided in June 2000, Luttig wrot ... read full excerpt from Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior ebook
