No Merit for Minnesota
October 29, 2008
A Minneapolis Star Tribune article has a good update on the upcoming judicial races in Minnesota.
Judicial candidates have found many innovative ways to inform voters about the judicial philosophies – including YouTube videos – without compromising their independence. The Star Tribune reports that judicial campaigns this year are mostly “low-cost, low-key and low-profile affairs.” Kind of makes you wonder why some top Minnesota lawyers and outside special interest groups are lobbying to take judicial selection away from voters and hand it over to a tiny committee dominated by lawyers. Do they really think people don’t have the “insight and sophistication” to pick judges? Or do they just want to give legal special interests more power in deciding who sits on the bench?