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A look at Leah Ward Sears

By ADF Alliance Alert

Daily Report: "For the second year in a row, an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court has generated talk about whether Leah Ward Sears, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, would be tapped for the job. The Daily Report has covered her career since she was a judge on the Fulton County Superior Court and was appointed to the state high court in 1992. We have followed her in elections during which opponents focused on her writings about hot-button social issues such as statutory rape, sodomy and gay marriage. In 2004, Sears gave us a list of what she found to be her 10 most important decisions. In 2009, we analyzed her impact on the court she was about to depart, finding she was helpful to criminal defendants in cases that split the court but was a hard-to-predict vote in close civil cases . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).