Litigation

Alabama Rejects Bills for Nonpartisan Elections

By Lissette Villarruel

The Alabama Legislature has voted down two bills that would remove politics from judicial elections, according to a report by the Associate Press.

The bills would have created nonpartisan elections and limited campaign contributions for appellate judge candidates. While the votes split along party lines, as Republicans voted against and Democrats in favor of the bills, Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, who supported the legislation, declared that “‘Poll after poll has shown that the people don’t believe that politics should be involved in judges’ races.’”

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Full post as published by The Gavel on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).