Saturday, November 24, 2007
POPULAR ELECTION OF JUDGES IN SOUTH CAROLINA?
Our position remains the same as it has been--as long as the public is turning out to vote in local elections at the rate of 10%, it neither needs nor deserves the right to select judges. Moreover, for all its flaws--more on this later--the present system at least requires that a group of educated individuals compile and consider relevant information about the candidates. Furthermore, it requires that they justify their decisions in writing. Conversely, elections can be won or lost based on the last minute dissemination of misinformation by anonymous Bloggers or hired spin doctors.
To illustrate, our point, we invite our readers to compare the postings at CrookedCivilServants.com with http://www.scbar.org/pdf/JQCNov07.pdf.
