{"id":4542,"date":"2003-08-10T19:52:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-10T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/08\/10\/how-to-get-into-the-judge-gam"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:46","slug":"how-to-get-into-the-judge-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/08\/10\/how-to-get-into-the-judge-game\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Into The Judge Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Topics such as outright bribery and similar judicial corruption aren’t usually subtle or controversial enough to warrant treatment here at ethicalEsq?  <\/I> I mean, who is<\/I> in favor of bribing judges? [Rhetorical question, Jack.]  On the otherhand, outright silliness about judicial corruption <\/I>certainly deserves a Wea<\/I>kend Special posting:<\/P>
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There actually is <\/I>a serious discussion about the way judges get (s)elected in New York State in this week’s online Gotham Gazette<\/I>. Written by <\/FONT>Mark Berkey-Gerard, the article suggests that politics has a lot<\/I> to do with becoming a judge and offers little hope of reform. (“Judges,” August 8, 2003, available here<\/A>.)<\/P><\/FONT>
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You might<\/I> want to scan the article, but you should for sure<\/I> click on the link to the Gazette<\/I>‘s newest <\/I>interactive<\/U> game that “<\/FONT>lets you see if you’ve got what it takes for the<\/STRONG> Brooklyn bench<\/STRONG>” — it’s called <\/FONT>The Judges<\/A> Game<\/STRONG><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/P>
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I won’t tell you whether I passed, nor if I wanted to, but you’re encouraged to Comment and\/or confide.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Topics such as outright bribery and similar judicial corruption aren’t usually subtle or controversial enough to warrant treatment here at ethicalEsq?   I mean, who is in favor of bribing judges? [Rhetorical question, Jack.]  On the otherhand, outright silliness about judicial corruption certainly deserves a Weakend Special posting: There actually is a serious discussion about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1bg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14191,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/14191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}