June 09, 2006

The Los Angeles Times has a lengthy must-read article on Nevada state court judges' "pay to play" system, and a lengthy individual case study of a particular judge who made it from the state courts to the federal bench. All that's missing is a public-choice quote from Alex Tabarrok on why such a system necessarily penalizes out-of-state litigants. Of course, Hamilton first noted this problem in Federalist No. 80...