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September 23, 2010
Why ARE Americans still popularly electing judges?
Our short version for the rabble. Are we just hopelessly third-rate and classless? Nuts? Or too lazy to get the state legislatures to change? Popular election judiciary schemes are bad for good business clients--and their lawyers. And they send bad-smelling messages to all clients, all Americans, and the entire world about the nature of justice in America: (1) Judges have "constituents"; and (2) Justice here is "for sale". But 39 states still keep these systems in place. Why not reinstate a few witchcraft laws? Bring back debtors prisons? Ordeal by water (my personal Gothic favorite), maybe? Do see "Choose Judges on Merit", a site by our favorite sane voice in the changing wilderness, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts. Man. Like, dudes, get the net.
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Posted by JD Hull at September 23, 2010 11:59 PM