There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from sp…

- Deborah Rhode

I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends a…

- Deborah Rhode

There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure…

- Deborah Rhode

Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to thes…

- Deborah Rhode

I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's…

- Deborah Rhode

As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, ov…

- Deborah Rhode

The cliché is what are the qualifications for a federal Court of Appeals judge is somebody who knew a senator once. I mean the process of selection i…

- Deborah Rhode

You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the jud…

- Deborah Rhode

We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experienc…

- Deborah Rhode