Citizens Commission for the Preservation of an Impartial Judicial
("Quie" Commission)

• Final Report and Recommendations (March 26, 2007)

American Bar Association

• ABA Judicial Division
• ABA Policy calling on bar associations to take the lead in forming voluntary judicial campaign conduct committeess. (Original recommendation developed by the Standing Committee on Judicial Independence.) [Adopted by the House of Delegates in August of 2002.]
• ABA Standing Committee on Judicial Independence
  • Standards on State Judicial Selection
  • Resource Kit on Judicial Independence (includes information on judicial campaign conduct issues)

American Judicature Society

• The states' response to Republican Party of Minnesota v. White by Cynthia Gray (Judicature, November-December 2002
• Judicial Selection in the States (Website with links to information on each state)

Brennan Center for Justice: Judicial Independence Series

• Public Funding for Judicial Elections: Finance Campaigns for Fair and Impartial Courts By Deborah Goldberg
• Freeing Candidate Speech in Judicial Elections: Or, How Safe Are Loose Canons? By Mark Kozlowski and Praveen Krishna
• Regulating Interest Group Activity in Judicial Elections By Mark Kozlowski

Committee for Economic Development: Judicial Selection Reform

• Justice for Hire: Improving Judicial Selection

The Constitution Project: A bipartisan nonprofit organization that seeks consensus on controversial legal and constitutional issues through a unique combination of scholarship and activism. (Georgetown University)

• The Higher Ground: Standards of Conduct for Judicial Candidates

Judicial Elections - the sensible middle path that the Supreme Court missed by Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar (FindLaw Forum)

National Center for State Courts - A Summit on Judicial Election Reform
{ Follow links to Call to Action }

• Is Justice for Sale in Ohio? Legal profession proposes reforms in judicial selection process By Robert J. Derocher
• Implementing the Call to Action of the Summit on Improving Judicial Selection (Scroll to view)
• National Ad HocAdvisory Committee on Judicial Campaign Conduct, providing technical assistance and models to states and localities seeking to implement campaign conduct committees.

Court Decisions

• Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, No. 99-4021, ___ F.3d. ___ (8th Cir., 08/02/05
• Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002)
• Note: The Minnesota Board on Judicial standards has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari in the dispute over political activities of judges and judicial candidates. View the October 2005 petition and appendix in Dimick v. Republican Party of Minnesota.
• United States Court of Appeals 11th Circuit - Weaver v. Bonner
• United State District Court Northern District of New York - Spargo v. NY State Commission on Judicial Conduct