The Rise of Judicial Partisanship
In today's America, the bitter struggle over judicial appointments is driven, in part, by the power wielded by judges and prosecutors and the expectation that their actions in cases that come before them will be determined, or at least influenced, by partisan considerations that go beyond the well-known special treatment reserved for family and friends.
An example of such prosecutorial partisanship is documented in the recent investigative report of Adam Zagorin and Time magazine (see PDF) which examined the fate of two Republicans and one Democrat holding high office and accused of similar offenses. Only the Democrat was sent to prison by the Republican-dominated Department of Justice.
“[S]ome of the same allegations that led to [Democrat] Siegelman's indictment never merited so much as a follow-up when raised in connection with Republicans.”
“[T]he Siegelman prosecution was a case of selective justice ... [I]n the Bush Administration, enforcing the law has been a partisan pursuit.”
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