Jed Shugerman was interviewed on WNYC about New York’s process of selecting judges.
“The problem with the New York system is how much party insiders shape and control and dominate the system,” said Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of book on judicial elections. For elected judges in New York City, where Democrats dominate, the party nomination is the end of the process.
“Whoever the democrats pick, that judge, that partisan insider, automatically gets on the court because the election is just a rubber stamp,” he said.
