Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary
Jun. 16, 2001
America Stands Out for its Judiciary Free of Corruption
No society in the world offers its citizenry access to a legal system comparable to that available in the United States. But in our political, social and cultural disputes, occasionally escalating into riots, the American courts never have experienced a personal assault on the judiciary comparable to that in other countries.
Lawrence Waddington
Neutral, JAMS
Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
No society in the world offers its citizenry access to a legal system comparable to that available in the United States. But in our political, social and cultural disputes, occasionally escalating into riots, the American courts never have experienced a personal assault on the judiciary comparable to that in other countries.
An independent judiciary, substantially immune from retribution in California courts and life-tenured in federal courts, is foreign to the vast majority of th...