The American Bar Association's Committee on Judicial Independence is working on guidelines for when judges should recuse themselves.

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Sotomayor's critics argue that she has unfairly considered race when making judicial decisions.

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But when asked whether judicial nominees deserve an up-or-down vote, big majorities say yes.

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Mr Erdogan himself, at the time the Welfare mayor of Istanbul, was caught in the judicial net when he was briefly jailed for reading an Islamist poem in public.

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