Tag Archives: Alaska Bar Association

Miller v. Carpeneti: The conservatives behind the attack on Alaska judicial independence and impartiality

By Mel | Published: Friday, 11 September 2009
Using Scott Christiansen's excellent article in the Anchorage Press as a jumping off point, this post goes deeper into why conservatives are attacking Alaska's merit-based system of judicial selection, and the part that the Miller v. Carpeneti case is playing in a much larger nationwide effort to politicize judicial selection in the U.S. -- with plaintiffs' lead attorney James Bopp, Jr. at the forefront.
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Miller v. Carpeneti: Where was the press?

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 29 August 2009
The lawsuit that calls for the federal courts to overturn major provisions of the Alaska Constitution with respect to judicial selection was filed on July 2. Why, then, did the Alaska press not report on it until August 26? Also included most important filings to date in the case.
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Lawsuit asks feds to overrule Alaska Constitution

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 27 August 2009
When you can't get your own way under your state's Constitution -- why, just find some federal judge to declare your Constitution unconstitutional! So with righty-tighty Alaskans with regard to judicial appointments.
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WAR’s antigay letter to the Alaska Bar Association, 1993

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
You’ve heard about it, now here it is: the famous letter written by Wayne Anthony Ross to the Alaska Bar Association and published in the Alaska Bar Rag in the early 1990s (turns out it was 1993) which referred to LGBTQ Alaskans as “degenerates.”  My friend Steve passed it to me earlier today after an [...]
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