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"At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case are hardly confined to New Hampshire. They involved the proper nature and operation of judicial independence within a 'populist' civic culture that had long assumed the primacy of the legislative branch, extolled its 'citizen legislators' over insulated and professionalized elites, and entrusted those legislators to properly supervise the judiciary. In the last few decades of the 20th century, New Hampshire's judiciary had been substantially reconfigured: constitutional amendments and other measures endorsed by the national judicial-modernization movement had secured for it a much higher level of independence and internal unification than it had historically enjoyed. However, a bipartisan body of legislators remained committed to the principle of legislative supremacy inscribed in the state constitution of 1784. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a series of clashes over court administrati

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Author

Cerullo, John; Steelman, David C.

Publisher

Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield)

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498565905

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Law