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: Kentucky Law BlogJUDICIARY: "Courts - Tennessee's "Missouri plan" for judicial selection expires" FROM ILB
By Michael Stevens
Another interest story on judicial election, selection, merit, and politics as merit selection under the Missouri plan may end. Post found at the Indiana Law Blog.
Courts - Tennessee's "Missouri plan" for judicial selection expires
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Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).
Courts - Tennessee's "Missouri plan" for judicial selection expires
Apparently, it was subject to a "Sunset"-type provision. From a May 10th WSJ article:Since the 1970s, Tennessee has used a modified Missouri Plan for choosing its judges, known to its proponents as "merit selection...
Around the Web, May 10
Good Wall Street Journal opinion section today, with an editorial, "Tennessee's Trial Run," on the judicial selection process in the Volunteer State. The state's current appointive plan, a modified Missouri-plan "merit selection" gives inordinate influence to insides and special...
"Tennessee's Trial Run"
"Tennessee's Trial Run": The Wall Street Journal today contains an editorial that begins, "Making things happen can be difficult in government, so Tennessee lawmakers have a plum assignment in the coming weeks...
Some interstitial thoughts on judicial selection and elections
Jim and Walter have done an excellent job of covering the waterfront (Jim even quoted my criticism of the "Missouri Plan"!), so let me restrict myself to some additional thoughts they haven't addressed:...
"The Republican Candidates' Views on Judicial Selection: How Would a President McCain, Huckabee, or Paul Influence the Supreme Court and the Rest of the Federal Judiciary"
"The Republican Candidates' Views on Judicial Selection: How Would a President McCain, Huckabee, or Paul Influence the Supreme Court and the Rest of the Federal Judiciary?" Carl Tobias has this essay online today at FindLaw.
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