Sentences with phrase «partisan judicial races»

With the expecting signing this week of a bill to transition West Virginia judicial races from partisan to nonpartisan, the number of states with partisan judicial races for their courts of last resort (usually called supreme court) will decrease down to 8.

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.

About 220 candidates are running in the state's partisan judicial races to be decided next week.

North Carolina recently became the first state in nearly a century to switch from nonpartisan to partisan judicial races.

In November 2009, the Pennsylvania turnout for the statewide partisan judicial races was extremely low.

FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).

Not exact matches

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.

Arkansas: Supreme Court could get merit selection if all other judicial races go back to being partisan ones

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).

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.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.