Mar 26 2008
Erie Times-News: Judges Should Be Selected on Merit
In an editorial published yesterday, the Times-News discusses some major problems with partisan election of judges, and how a switch to Merit Selection will help solve them.
Tags: editorial, Merit Selection, Opinion, PennsylvaniaThere remains something unseemly about judges and justices raising money and having to display their political stripes. That is the main reason we support the latest effort to amend the state Constitution so statewide judges could be selected on the basis of merit.
