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Fed up with a system that featured campaigns for judicial office that included yard signs and bumper stickers, that forced judges to seek campaign contributions from lawyers and parties who
In our system we go to the Legislature to rescind unpopular laws. We rely on judges to decide cases presented to them in a fair and impartial way, bringing all the learning they can to achieve a result required by judicial principles, not popular opinion.
A contest for a Richland County state judge’s post underscores the low numbers of Black and minority judges in South Carolina’s judiciary.
Indiana State Sen. Lonnie Randolph, D-East Chicago, has reintroduced legislation that would move Lake County to the same system of elected judges used elsewhere in the state. Randolph’s latest push for the change comes after a federal judge ruled against a lawsuit challenging the county’s system of appointed judges earlier this month. Most Superior Court judges in Indiana are elected by ...
South Carolina’s Attorney General has called for judicial reform many times before in the past, but now he points to something that’ll happen this year that may finally change the game.