Sentences with phrase «ending judicial elections»

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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.

On that day West Virginia's governor formally signed HB 2010 ending partisan judicial races starting with the 2016 elections; the governor had issued a veto on HB 2010 previously not on the merits but due to typographical and reference errors in the bill.

Same day West Virginia ends partisan judicial elections, North Carolina citing «transparency» starts process to bring them back

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.

While the North Carolina Constitution was radically changed after the end of Reconstruction and during the Jim Crow era to restore some legislative power over the courts, judicial elections remained.