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Question: Should judges be elected?
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Associate Justice PiT
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« on: April 13, 2015, 11:48:16 PM »
     Electing judges is a terrible idea, because a big part of what the judicial branch stands for is independently and dispassionately deciding on the constitutionality of the law. Making them worry about the opinions of the voting public gets in the way of that.
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Associate Justice PiT
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2015, 12:43:57 AM »
Quote from: Ebsy on April 15, 2015, 10:43:20 PM
I'm happy Missouri has retention votes instead of judicial elections. The cluster [Inks] across the river in Illinois has convinced me that judicial elections are absolutely wretched.

     California has retention votes too and they've proven to be terrible. Probably not as bad as actual elections, but nothing to be happy about.
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