Mar 26 2008

Erie Times-News: Judges Should Be Selected on Merit

Published by K.O. at 10:20 am under Merit Selection News

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.

There 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.

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