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You see, the New Jersey branch of Americans for Prosperity recently launched a judicial elections initiative, promoted via a...
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You see, the New Jersey branch of Americans for Prosperity recently launched a judicial elections initiative, promoted via a press release that also touted the website «NJDisrobed.com» as a source for «information about decisions and implications on the electorate.»
Then in 1832, Mississippi became the first state to implement judicial elections.
Note that now only twenty - two of the fifty states have judicial elections.
The bottom line is come November voters can do little more than cross their fingers and hope the winners of county - level and Supreme Court judicial elections serve in their home county and are assigned to the positions they campaigned to fill.
Three candidates are somehow in the mild slugfest for county Surrogate Court judge — Democrat Sara McGinty, who won her party's primary, though not its endorsement at convention, and has a dubious distinction of being listed as «not qualified» by the Third Judicial Department Independent Judicial Elections Qualification Commissions, though the Ulster County Bar Association lists her as «qualified.»
Both candidates were rated «qualified» by the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commissions.
Torres was fired from the elections board in October 2015 in a dispute with Republican leaders after Conservatives made a cross-endorsement deal with Democrats for judicial elections.
Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: 2016 Election, Chautauqua County Family Court, Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission, Jeffrey Piazza, Jennifer Piazza, Judith Claire, Michael Sullivan, Sally Jaroszynski, Sherry Bjork, Thomas DiNapoli, Town of Ellicott Court
In a 2000 report, the ABA Commission on State Judicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigning.»
A Chicago lawyer's focus on case law and judicial elections with commentary and a smattering of «water - cooler rant.»
Merit selection, endorsed by the ABA in 1937, helps remove the partisan politics inherent in a judicial election and the excesses of campaign rhetoric and cash.
Trust in our court system has also been undermined by judicial elections plagued with partisan and often - misleading information about the candidates because of the increase in special - interest financial contributions in the races.
Pennsylvania is one of at least four states that holds judicial elections in off - years.
Allowing so much corporate money to slosh around in judicial elections endangers justice.
Money drives everything in the law: legislation, the executive branch, judicial elections, law firms big and small.
After working as a prosecutor, she ran in Oregon's nonpartisan judicial elections, serving on the Multnomah County Circuit Court and then the Oregon Court of Appeals.
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Tags: F.P. Segars - Andrews, Judicial Elections, Jurisprudence, New York Times, Sandra Day O'Connor, United States Supreme Court
Thank you to each of you who used the judicial evaluations of the Chicago Council of Lawyers to make informed decisions about judicial elections.
A corporate - funded «Astroturf» campaign has pressed the fight in local judicial elections, in state and federal legislatures, and in the court of public opinion.
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In fact, Michigan led the nation in anonymous spending in the most recent judicial election cycle.
The project aims to make judicial elections more transparent for journalists and researchers by creating online profiles of judges that show campaign contributions, judicial opinions and biographies.
Both are focused on using data to provide greater transparency about judges and judicial elections.
The tool will be location specific, meaning that users will enter an address to see the judicial elections they will be voting in and then be provided with key information, insights and context about candidates, their views and the court system.
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Judge Your Judges, a project of public radio station WNYC in New York that will focus on enabling voters to make more knowledgeable decisions about New York judicial elections.
The most dangerous part of getting involved in a judicial election is the risk of a conflict.
Many judicial elections are for trial courts.
Moreover, I think lawyers have a greater duty than the general public when it comes to judicial elections.
By getting involved in a judicial election, and picking a specific candidate, lawyers are rolling the proverbial dice.
That's the risk with getting involved in a judicial election.
Tags: F.P. Segars - Andrews, Judicial Elections, Judicial Merit Selection Commission Posted in Miscellaneous, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific 3 Comments»
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Without regard to whether the judge's actions in this respect reach dimensions that would justify issuance of the habeas writ, it should be noted that a short continuance would have alleviated any problem with regard to the judicial elections.
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The Speaker of the House voiced his support for a return to pre-1994 partisan judicial elections.
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Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, F.P. Segars - Andrews, Judicial Elections, Judicial Merit Selection Commission Posted in Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public 13 Comments»
Nonpartisan thanks to a major reform effort in 1994 Nonpartisan Judicial Elections Act (Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Circuit, Chancery, County)
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Should judges use social media injudiciously during judicial elections?
The idea of ending these partisan primary elections was at one point in 2014 part of Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor's plan to change the state's judicial election system, but was eventually dropped.
Utah Legislative Year in Review: judicial election / selection changes; should Justice Court judges be attorneys?
Filed under: executive orders, Indian tribes, judicial elections, service animals, tobacco settlement, Voting Rights Act
«They have one of the more engaging races, and I think it might generate some public interest in judicial elections.»
Crawford won a judicial election in Cook County even though a state supreme court order temporarily banned her from the bench.
Minnesota Lawyer newspaper has much more on this year's judicial elections.
Other recent changes have already introduced more partisanship and money into judicial elections.