By wide agreement among experts on judicial politics, the campaigns this year are among the most aggressive ever.

Until the day of merit selection comes, I am in favor of partisan judicial politics.

Today's vote left only increased confusion over how the issue, with its complex brew of ethnic and judicial politics, will play out.

Judge Sotomayor's nomination had become embroiled in the sometimes tortured judicial politics of the Senate.

The episode thus lifted the curtain on the usually discreet and private world of judicial politics.

Now, however, it's back to judicial politics as usual.

But in the absence of a machine endorsement, judicial politics in Brooklyn has become even more local than usual.

His research focuses on judicial politics in Canada.

The effects of judicial politics are more than theoretical.

"A lot of us who have been in the Legislature are getting tired of judicial politics and judges making decisions that decide social policy," he said.