Since the Missouri Plan was adopted by voters 70 years ago, our state has respected the dignity of the court, keeping politics and politicians out of our nonpartisan courtrooms and giving Missourians the final say on judges through retention elections.
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to change the current nonpartisan selection of supreme court and court of appeals judges to a process that gives the governor increased authority to:
There are no estimated costs or savings expected if this proposal is approved by voters
On election night, Tuesday, Nov. 6, the opponents of efforts to overturn the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan will gather in Columbia at the birthplace of the Missouri Plan, the Tiger Hotel.
The leading opponents of Amendment 3, the Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Committee, are hosting the watch party, which will start at 8:30.
The Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Committee (MFICC) today launched a television ad asking Missourians to keep politics out of Missouri courtrooms by voting no on Amendment 3.
This week the KC Star and Columbia Daily Tribune editorial boards officially announced their endorsement against Amendment 3, which would inundate Missouri courtrooms with politics. The two papers join Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Committee (MFICC) in the fight to preserve Missouri’s current Nonpartisan Court Plan. The Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan, which was approved [...]
The leader of Missouri’s lawyers says he’ll be 100 percent focused for the next week on defeating Amendment Three–the change in Missouri’s nonpartisan court plan. Missouri Bar President Patrick Starke wants to have a full court press against giving the governor more power in the selection of appeals and supreme court judges and judges in [...]
For about a decade now, a handful of rich business people and a cadre of Republican Party operatives riding the gravy train have tried various ways to politicize the merit-system plan by which judges are chosen in Missouri’s large metro areas and its appellate-level courts. If you can buy a judge with campaign cash, your [...]
While backers of a ballot proposal to change the process for selecting some Missouri judges have dropped their campaign, a representative will still square off against an opponent at a St. Charles meeting next week. Tom Walsh, president of Better Courts for Misssouri, will appear with a leading opponent – former Missouri Supreme Court Judge [...]
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