‘Flaming moderates’: Many say Indiana courts remain centrist despite heavy GOP tilt

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4 thoughts on “‘Flaming moderates’: Many say Indiana courts remain centrist despite heavy GOP tilt

  1. The missing part of this is what Bopp alluded to, the politics of the selection process. The IBJ should do an article on which faction of the Indiana bar controls their three slots on the judicial nominating commission, for example.

    1. Bopp’s criticism might be more valid if it wasn’t obvious he wanted to pack the court with ideologues like him.

      To Bopp, you’d probably go after those elites by choosing someone like Indiana’s Sarah Pitlyk, who got a lifetime federal judgeship despite being laughably unqualified because she believed the “right” things according to Bopp.

      Or maybe he’d prefer they choose someone like Aaron Freeman to be a Supreme Court justice. Can’t wait until Freeman rules that drivers have a constitutional right to run pedestrians over.

  2. All attorneys know the state’s Pi attorneys tend to control the nominations and vote only for fellow PI attorneys. Even the public members tend to have connections with PI law firms.

  3. Why do some Hoosiers act as if moderation in setting legal precedent is a bad thing?

    As Joe B. points out, it’s only “bad” if one wants to use the courts to tilt things toward the extreme views of radical ideologues.

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