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Yet Another Common Sense Policy Proposal

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Don’t elect judges.

Simple as that. Because when you elect judges, you don’t get impartial decision-making (to the extent that even exists), you don’t get an environment that allows for the scrupulous acting out of exemplary legal ethics, and you certainly don’t get people who are necessarily the best for the job.

True, appointed judges aren’t necessarily always the best qualified for the jobs to which they are appointed…but it should raise a red flag that electing judges is yet another example of American Exceptionalism. Judges here receive less perfunctory specialized training than house appraisers, and certainly far less than their French peers (the judges’ not the appraisers’) who take a 4-day test simply to qualify to become a judge. What’s more, as a recent case proved (despite what the Supreme Court said), in many states the processes for electing judges are anything but democratic.

Supporters of electing judges counter that it allows for more transparency. That may be so. But excuse me if I am a little skeptical that what we are really getting with judicial campaigns is transparency. I think it’s been a long time since political campaigns provided that (at least since the advent of TV, if not long long before).

So while there’s no way to a perfect judiciary, I’m not so sure that elected judges is the closest to perfection that we can get.

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