{"id":1725,"date":"2023-10-19T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:27:55","slug":"can-judges-be-swayed-by-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/can-judges-be-swayed-by-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Can Judges be Swayed by Politics?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AJS Chairman Lawrence Okinaga was recently on KHON\u2019s <em>What\u2019s the Law<\/em>, a weekly podcast which provides valuable information on important legal topics. He joined producer\/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss how judges are selected, canons of ethics that judges need to abide by, and why the U.S. Supreme Court doesn\u2019t have a judicial code of ethics. Tune in to the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/whats-the-law\/can-judges-be-swayed-by-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> or click on the image below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/whats-the-law\/can-judges-be-swayed-by-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image.png 472w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-345x120.png 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}