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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Courts - National efforts to change merit selection systems continue
How Appealing this morning points to two interesting judicial merrit retention stories.
From the Orlando Sentinel, a story by Aaron Deslatte, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, from the Florida House - a quote:
The House Civil Justice Subcommittee voted 10-4 Wednesday to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Supreme Court and appeals judges to get at least 60 percent of the vote in a merit-retention election, instead of a simple majority as now.From the Des Moines Register, a story that Iowa Governor Branstad has appointed to the Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission a "conservative" lawyer, to seat normally filled by a non-lawyer. The story notes that:
Gustoff [the appointee] is one of the attorneys for a group of Iowans now suing the commission over the fact that half of its members are selected not by elected officials but by lawyers.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 10, 2011 09:51 AM
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