Watching the confirmation hearings the past few days and seeing how political the mere process of nominating a Judge was I started thinking about the way Judges in non-Federal positions are elected.
After reading the above linked Toledo Blade article? I feel even stronger about it. Some points of the article:
COLUMBUS - Five of seven sitting Ohio Supreme Court justices have received nearly $125,000 in campaign cash connected to FirstEnergy Corp. over the last decade, prompting a call for them to remove themselves from an upcoming case worth billions to the company.
In May, five Republican justices who received $23,510 in campaign contributions from Tom and Bernadette Noe, former Lucas County Republican chairmen, recused themselves from a case related to the Bureau of Workers' Compensation's failed $50 million investment in rare-coin funds run by Mr. Noe.
Six months earlier, four justices - three Republicans and one Democrat - removed themselves from consideration of an election matter involving a group that spent millions promoting or attacking Supreme Court candidates.
While I am not sure I want selecting Ohio Judges to turn into the event that has happened in Washington there has to be a better way.
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3 comments:
With publicly financed campaigns the temptation could be removed.
Then, only the old fashioned bribery system would be left :-(
As for lifetime judgeships, I'm against that concept. The voters need to reevaluate the competency of judges, especially in their declining years...
And more laughs from the east. I know that it is an important issue and that it looks really bad for elected judges, but dammnit I'm having fun at the expense of Ohio politics and thankful that we only have to worry about governers who are confused with their sexual preferances in NJ
I don't get why anyone would think electing judges is good. You may want to be able to install people who think like you, but you also risk the other side electing their judges.
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