An Indiana federal court granted an injunction Tuesday against rules preventing judicial candidates from answering a candidate questionnaire.
Torrey Bauer and David Certo had sought to express their views on an Indiana Right to Life survey, but feared state rules. The court's decision prevents Indiana's Commission on Judicial Qualifications from enforcing those rules.
James Bopp Jr., who is representing the two men, said the Indiana judicial rules “contradict the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision and subsequent federal court ruling that recognize that judicial candidates have a right to respond to questionnaires like this and that voters have a right to hear what they have to say.”
Bopp and the James Madison Center for Free Speech have organized the Judicial Accountability Project to assist judicial candidates around the country.
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Visit the James Madison Center for Free Speech Web site and click on the "Judicial Accountability Project" link.
