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.»
Conventional wisdom states that White has heightened the politicization
of judicial elections by facilitating expensive, below - the - belt exchanges that aharply attenuate the incumbency advantage and threaten the legitimacy of state courts.
Although 38 states have some
form of judicial elections Alabama is one of only eight states that elect all state judges on a partisan ballot.
Critics of judicial elections as well as plaintiff's lawyers in both cases have alleged that both firms contributed heavily and played big roles in electing Karmeier to the bench.
I mentioned back in February the unique dichotomy between North Carolina and West Virginia's legislatures in
terms of judicial elections.
Professor Jed Shugerman's
history of judicial elections, «The People's Courts,» discussed how a few Southern states moved from judicial elections to merit selection in response to black voters regaining some power from 1950 to the early 1970s.
Guest speaker, «
Ethics of Judicial Elections in the Context of Regulation, Free Speech, Impartiality and Independence: Point and Counterpoint,» ABA Convention, 2007
The Kentucky Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee, a non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental body, is concerned that the ruling on contributions may undermine the
integrity of judicial elections and thus damage public regard for the judiciary.
New Mexico's governor vetoes bills on judicial pensions, public financing of judicial elections
In their book «In Defense
of Judicial Elections» authors Melinda Gann Hall and Chris Bonneau do just that — they provide a defense of judicial elections.
This study argues that individual - level data
of judicial elections is important for understanding the dynamics of judicial elections.
Adopt Public financing
of Judicial Elections.
But in a new report, the latest in the series The Politics
of Judicial Elections, we found that the integrity of our state supreme courts is increasingly under threat from a -LSB-...]