Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan judicial election»

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.

Nonpartisan thanks to a major reform effort in 1994 Nonpartisan Judicial Elections Act (Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Circuit, Chancery, County)

Every effort West Virginia has taken in the last several years (enacting public financing of supreme court races and moving to nonpartisan judicial elections) North Carolina has done the opposite (repealing public financing of appellate races and efforts to move back to partisan judicial elections).

Not exact matches

At the same time it repeals nonpartisan elections for all other judicial races.

Opponents of court reform have targeted ethical rules aimed at promoting the integrity and independence of the judiciary; public financing for judicial elections; and the use of nonpartisan merit commissions to screen judicial nominees.

Not only does SB 650 end nonpartisan judicial races, it would also end all nonpartisan races from local board of elections to boards of education and the like.

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, has monitored judicial elections and other state court issues for almost two decades and published an extensive report last year about merit selection.

There has been no attempt to change this from nonpartisan to partisan, although several bills were introduced to change the nonpartisan races to gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.

A third proposal (HB 2150 of 2007) would have replaced nonpartisan elections with gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.

A judicial office is a nonpartisan office and a candidate for election thereto is prohibited from campaigning or qualifying for such an office based on party affiliation.

This looks exclusively at the proposals to keep judicial elections but make them nonpartisan.