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Monday, November 01, 2010
Courts - Five reasons why Nevadans should vote "no" on changing to an appointed, rather than elected, Supreme Court
A letter today in the Las Vegas Review-Journal from two professors Sylvia R. Lazos, at UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law, and Chris W. Bonneau, a professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. spell out their reasons why Nevada should not move to a system of selecting appellate judges similar to that of Indiana.
Number four is intended to refute the contention that the change would "result in a better quality of judges." It continues: "It is true that under the current system, Nevadans have witnessed judges who have embarrassed the office to which they were elected." The answer, according to the writers, would be to switch to a partisan elective system, which would mean that the parties would screen the candidates.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 1, 2010 10:49 AM
Posted to Courts in general