Litigation

Newspaper: Big-Money Elections Diminish Judicial Records

By Peter Hardin

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial again urges  Senate confirmation of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis L. Butler Jr. to a federal court judgeship. (See earlier Gavel Grab posts.) The newspaper asks senators to focus on Butler’s record on the bench, not on Butler’s election defeat when his opponent ran an “unsavory” campaign:

“In any case, a federal judgeship should be dependent on qualifications. Butler has that record. Unfortunately, in the kind of big money elections that state Supreme Court races have become, this has not been as important as it has been.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).