Sentences with phrase «over merit selection»

Contemporary judicial selection concerns include the controversy over merit selection of judges vs. the election of judges, the need for judicial election reform, and the effect of the method of judicial selection on the number of minorities and women seated on the bench.

According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and retention process, and 69 percent support amending the constitution to make this change.

Not exact matches

It moves Supreme Court races to a merit selection system, but places much more power over the 15 member Judicial Nominating Commission in the legislature

Legislators in states like Florida and Kansas have also introduced bills to give themselves more control over choosing judges or change their merit selection systems to make them more like the North Carolina proposal.

HCR 2028 (Constitutional Amendment) Ends merit / commission selection of Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Superior Court in counties with a population over 250,000.

Kromm acknowledged that merit selection can be a good reform «when done right, but what this body has supported is legislative merit selection which does little to stop special interest influence over our judiciary.»

A sort of subcommittee of the association is expected to participate in a teleconference later this week to go over concerns about a merit selection process and to determine, if it were to come to pass, what they would want the process to look like.

Or it could be through a process of merit selection presided over by a panel of eminent Indigenous peers; or

Whether the national structure be decided through a process of merit selection presided over by a panel of eminent Indigenous peers;

Whether representatives should be chosen by election or by delegation, or alternatively whether they should be chosen through a merit selection process presided over by a panel of eminent Indigenous peers;