Judges

ICC Judges Launch Legal Challenge Against US Sanctions

June 27, 2026 Melike Pala, Anadolu Agency. Resist! International Criminal Court (ICC), Judges, Legal System, US Sanctions

Three judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have filed a lawsuit against the US government over sanctions in connection with judicial decisions on investigations involving Israel and the US, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported on Thursday. The judges, who are from Canada, Uganda and Benin, submitted their case to a federal court in Manhattan, saying that the sanctions are unlawful and constitute an attack on judicial independence. The sanctions, introduced by Washington last year, include financial restrictions and visa bans targeting the judges and other ICC personnel involved in investigations concerning war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Manual For US Judges

February 18, 2026 Abraham Lustgarten, Pro Publica. Educate! climate crisis, climate denial, Judges, Legal System

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual. The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts, including two on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court for the current term.

Judges Should Have To Go To Law School

October 4, 2023 Seth Stern, Freedom of the Press. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Judges, judicial system, Law School

Laws are only as good as the judges tasked with upholding them. And lately, journalists across the U.S. have learned that the legal protections they thought they could rely upon often exist only on paper. But what they may not realize is that, in many states, some judges deciding their constitutional rights aren’t even required to go to law school. The August raid of the Marion County Record, purportedly to investigate whether a journalist illegally accessed driving records, is illustrative. The warrant application failed to mention the federal law -– the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, or PPA — that bans newsroom searches except in limited, inapplicable circumstances.

We Need More Public Defenders To Become Judges

December 28, 2020 Brendon Woods and Emily Galvin Almanza, Business Insider. Create! Civil Rights, Judges, Legal System, Public defenders

As public defenders, it's been hard to watch the defacement of our federal courts by the Trump administration. From the Supreme Court on down, the country's judicial benches are occupied by fewer people who have fought for compassion over cages. For every public defender on the federal bench, there are four former prosecutors —and the ratio is seven to one if you expand the comparison to lawyers who represented people instead of just lawyers who represented the government. State and federal judicial posts are packed with individuals who have spent their careers defending corporate polluters, protecting big real estate, or filling our jails and prisons, leaving ordinary people looking for the protection of the courts out in the cold.

Former Judge Resigns From The Supreme Court Bar

March 16, 2020 By Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com Resist! Judges, Supreme Court

James Dannenberg is a retired Hawaii state judge. He sat on the District Court of the 1st Circuit of the state judiciary for 27 years. Before that, he served as the deputy attorney general of Hawaii. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, teaching federal jurisdiction for more than a decade.

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