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Polarized Circuits: Party Affiliation Of Appointing Presidents, Ideology And Circuit Court Voting In Race And Gender Civil Rights Cases, Christopher R. Smith
Polarized Circuits: Party Affiliation Of Appointing Presidents, Ideology And Circuit Court Voting In Race And Gender Civil Rights Cases, Christopher R. Smith
Christopher R Smith
ABSTRACT Polarized Circuits: Party Affiliation of Appointing Presidents, Ideology and Circuit Court Voting in Race and Gender Civil Rights Cases This article seeks to examine the impact of Presidential party affiliation on the ideological voting patterns of Circuit Court judicial appointments within the context of race and gender civil rights cases. The article assesses two hypotheses regarding Circuit Court judicial voting patterns in race and gender civil rights cases: 1) That the ideological voting gap between Democratic appointed Circuit Court judges and Republican appointed Circuit Court judges has widened over time within the context of race and gender civil rights …
I Fought The Law And The Law Lost: The Case For Congressional Oversight Over Systemic Doj Discovery Abuse In Criminal Cases, Christopher R. Smith
I Fought The Law And The Law Lost: The Case For Congressional Oversight Over Systemic Doj Discovery Abuse In Criminal Cases, Christopher R. Smith
Christopher R Smith
ABSTRACT I Fought the Law and the Law Lost: The Case for Congressional Oversight Over Systemic DOJ Discovery Abuse in Criminal Cases This article addresses the need for congressional oversight over systemic DOJ criminal discovery abuse. The first section of the article outlines a sample group of cases across multiple federal districts, which represent the most highly publicized systemic DOJ criminal discovery abuse cases over the last two years. This first section of the article also examines the statistical record of DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (“OPR”) in terms of investigating federal prosecutorial abuse in criminal matters and enforcement of …