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James Sample Comments on Carl Landicino’s Nomination for State Supreme Court Judge
How A Brooklyn Democratic Functionary Becomes A Brooklyn Judge
By The New York World
City Hall News
September 27, 2011
EXCERPT:
“The issue is that party bosses still have the power to exclude qualified persons from the [ballot] line itself,” said James Sample, an attorney who served in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and has sued unsuccessfully to reform New York’s judicial selection process. “Rest assured the bosses use that power for patronage at expense of quality.
“Whoever controls the judicial convention controls everything.”
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