The impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock: judicial independence and civic populism/ by John Cerullo and David C. Steelman.

Title:

The impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock: judicial independence and civic populism/ by John Cerullo and David C. Steelman.

Author:

Cerullo, John,

Call Number:

347.742 C418

Publication Information:

Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, 2018.

Physical Description:

295 p. ; 23 cm.

Description:

At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought, state-level political struggles involve control of supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000. In the last decades of the twentieth century, constitutional amendments granted the state's judiciary a much higher level of independence than it had historically enjoyed. A bipartisan body of legislators, however, viewed this break from the past with suspicion. Clashes over court administration and judicial corruption, then a protracted battle over court rulings on educational funding, deepened their antipathy. When information emerged regarding some of the Chief Justices's administrative actions, that antipathy exploded into an impeachment crisis. Brock's trial catalyzed a broad effort to recalibrate legislative-judicial relations in the state. It also raised significant questions about state-level judicial autonomy, and about impeachment itself as a feature of democratic governance, that resonates far beyond New Hampshire's borders.

Subjects:

Trials (Impeachment) New Hampshire. , Judges New Hampshire.

People:

Brock, David A.

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Credit Line:

Gift of Rowman and Littlefield; June 2023;