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Gov. Dunleavy wants new nominees for Alaska Supreme Court vacancy in latest dispute over judicial picks

With 10 days to pick Alaska’s next Supreme Court justice, Gov. Mike Dunleavy is pushing back against a list of nominees sent to him by...

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Babcock attack undermines judicial independence

The only thing missing from the ignorant rant by State Farm insurance agent Kristie Babcock against Chief Justice Joel Bolger was the acknowledgment of the...

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Alaska governor reignites fight over judicial picks

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy asked the council that screens and nominates judicial applicants Thursday for a new slate of candidates for...

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Attacks on Chief Justice Bolger are unfounded, unprofessional

In a recent opinion piece, Kristie Babcock called into question Chief Justice Joel Bolger’s dedication to fairness, diversity and rural Alaska, based on his vote declining to advance...

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Kristie Babcock’s Hatchet Job on Joel Bolger

When WC was a first year law student in Chicago, our Civil Procedure professor took us to Cook County Courthouse to meet the presiding judge...

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The irony of Kristie Babcock’s attack on Chief Justice Joel Bolger

The opinion piece by Kristie Babcock recently published in the Anchorage Daily News, in which she accuses Chief Justice Joel Bolger of being a racist for...

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Babcock attack on chief justice undermines judicial independence

The only thing missing from the ignorant rant by State Farm insurance agent Kristie Babcock against Chief Justice Joel Bolger was the acknowledgment of the...

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Editorials

Governor pans the nominees for Supreme Court justices

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy today asked the Alaska Judicial Council to reconsider their nominations to the Alaska Supreme Court. He said the choices given to...

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Editorials

Right-wing preachers opposing Carney for Supreme Court seek to impose their politics on all

The right-wing men of the cloth attacking the independent judiciary in Alaska claim their campaign against Supreme Court Justice Sue Carney has nothing to do with her...

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Seven Former Attorneys General Support Justice Susan Carney

We are former Attorneys General of the State of Alaska. We served Republican, Democratic, and Alaska Independence party governors. We were appointed by Governors Egan,...

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Retired Judges Urge Southeast Alaskans to Finish the Ballot

In an election that many Alaskans are calling “the most important of our lifetimes,” with the presidency and control of the US Senate on the...

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Editorials

The Alaska Supreme Court needs justices of Sue Carney’s caliber

We shouldn’t be surprised that, in an era where nearly everything has become politicized, the retention of Alaska’s judges has too. As a branch of...

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