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MO Merit Defenders Declare Victory
- August 5, 2010
Critics of Missouri’s nationally recognized merit system for selecting judges have failed to get enough valid signatures to put the issue before voters this fall.
Not my fault if your petition drive failed
The “Buck Stops Here” Award (not) goes to James Harris, executive director of ShowMe Better Courts, for his reaction to the news that his group’s effort to select judges through partisan elections had failed to gain enough valid signatures.
“We are very disappointed that Lincoln Strategies failed to collect the requisite number of signatures, but we will continue moving forward and will resubmit the petition in November,” Harris said in a written statement.
Lincoln Strategy Group is the Arizona firm which Harris hired to gather the requisite number of signatures.
It’s not too hard to imagine Harry Truman ruefully shaking his head.
Roy Blunt sides with effort to change Missouri’s judicial-selection system
- June 9, 2010
U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, is apparently aligning his U.S. Senate bid with the initiative-petition effort to revamp how Missouri selects its judges in the urban areas and on the higher courts, by requiring that they be elected, not appointed.
Missouri Bar will protect judicial integrity
- June 8, 2010
Op-Ed by Skip Walther | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Regarding “Missouri’s judicial selection process is in need of reform” (June 1): The Missouri Bar Board of Governors disagrees strongly with James Harris’ dismal and misinformed assessment of Missouri’s court…
Is the showdown on Missouri judges over already?
- May 28, 2010
Might the Show-Me justice showdown be over before it even gets started?
Not sure, but opponents of the drive to force a statewide vote on Missouri’s judicial selection process say their analysis shows that vote isn’t going to happen.
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