Task Force on Federal Judicial Selection

POGO's Task Force on Federal Judicial Selection comprises former federal and state judges and experts with diverse backgrounds and points of view, each of whom possesses a firm belief in the need for a fair and independent judiciary in our constitutional democracy. Out of concern that the political stakes of judicial selection, especially at the Supreme Court level, have cast a shadow over the integrity of that process, its report, Above the Fray, sets forth several pillars of reform to change the stakes of Supreme Court selection and enhance the institution’s legitimacy.