The mushroom cloud rising above the Michigan Democratic Party/Reform Michigan Government Now plan just keeps getting bigger. Today, the Wall Street Journal zeroes in the sorry rationale behind this scheme to pack Michigan’s courts with liberal activists and gerrymander state voting districts to hand Democrats legislative control:
Reform Michigan’s backs want to rig the process in […]
Michigan Democratic Party chair Mark Brewer made defeating Michigan Supreme Court Justice Cliff Taylor his top priority in November. But following the spectacular implosion of a Brewer-supported scheme to rewrite Michigan’s Constitution, attorney Marietta Robinson, the leading Democratic contender for Taylor’s seat, appears to be backing away.
Detroit Free Press columnist Brian Dickerson reports that […]
Jim Copland, director for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, nails the sham constitutional amendment being peddled by Reform Michigan Government Now in a Detroit News oped today. While masquerading as “good government” reform, Copland writes that the plan is actually:
an effort to seize control of each of the branches of state government to […]
Readers of this space know I’ve done several posts about judicial selection in Tennessee. Now TN State Senator Dewayne Bunch has written a piece in the Cleveland, Tennessee Banner, in which he accurately describes the stakes not only for the quality of judicial decisions but for democracy itself. (Hat tip: Stacey Campfield)
In Tennessee, the Senate […]
In 2007, the Nevada Legislature approved switching to a “merit selection” system for the first time. If the Legislature does so again in 2009 and the voters approve in 2010, District Court and state Supreme Court judges would be nominated by a special-interest dominated committee, and the Governor would have to pick one of […]
Missouri’s supposedly non-partisan judicial selection system is controlled by a powerful “special-interest group” – Missouri’s trial bar – that is “unelected and unaccountable” write Thomas Walsh, a St. Louis attorney, and William Eckhardt, a Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
While Missouri’s so-called “merit selection” system was intended to remove […]
The responsibility for a sleazy plot to trick Michigan voters into handing Democrats one-party rule apparently reaches all the way to the top of the Michigan Democratic Party. In a July 20th column, the Detroit Free Press’ Ron Dzwonkowski reveals the shocking truth that both Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Lt. Gov. John Cherry funneled […]
Bob LaBrant, Vice President of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, says a lawsuit will be filed to block the bogus constitutional amendment unmasked yesterday as a Democratic Party/Labor Union tool to deceive Michigan voters. The Detroit Free Press has the latest.
Michigan is buzzing today over the smoking gun PowerPoint presentation uncovered by the intrepid folks at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The UAW may have set a new speed record for yanking an embarassing link of a website, but not before Reform Michigan Government Now’s proposed constitutional amendment was exposed as a sham […]
Walter Olson’s dissent more on judicial elections has stirred up a fascinating debate at PointofLaw.com. Ted Frank at AEI weighs in with several crucial points:
The George Soros campaign against judicial elections needs to be recognized as part of a larger campaign for judicial supremacy and the idea that judicial decision-making is beyond questioning by […]
