Judges, Politics, and Nikki Clark

[Richard Dougherty]

Michael:
This is an excellent point, and one that should not be overlooked. I would
like sources, if anyone can provide them, of the comments by the Bushes
themselves about Judge Clark. Fair-minded analysis I think also looks quite
favorably upon Terry Lewis.
Richard Dougherty

Michael MASINTER wrote:

> Easily lost in the discussion of whether and to what extent the decision
> of the many judges in election cases are predictable expressions of low
> politics is the ruling of Judge Clark in the Seminole County case.  Judge
> Clark is an African-American female ex legal services attorney passed over
> for promotion to an appellate court by Jeb Bush.  Both Bush brothers and
> many republican commentators asserted that she was so biased against
> republicans in general and the Bush brothers in particular that she could
> not help but rule against them.  Though low politics may be the best
> predictor of how the various judges have decided the election cases, it
> proved wrong when applied to Judge Clark, who emerged with her integrity
> intact and her reputation enhanced.  Before she fades back into the
> obscurity of state trial courts, I think she deserves recognition for
> being a good judge (and I don't practice in her court).
>
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