The Soros Connection In Tennessee
April 22, 2009
Picking up on yesterday’s Wall Street Journal editorial, Tennessee blogger Terry Frank asks what role hedge fund billionaire George Soros or his organizations are playing in the ongoing battle over Tennessee’s judicial selection system. Mr. Soros, of course, funnels millions to groups like Justice at Stake, which is lobbying to abolish democratic judicial elections in states across America and impose “merit” selection systems like the one under fire in Tennessee, where a committee dominated by elite legal special interests meets in secret to anoint judges.