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 […]

Charlie J. Harris, Jr., President of the Missouri Bar, writes that the judge soon to be chosen to fill a vacancy on Missouri’s Supreme Court “will not be beholden to special interests” because he or she will be selected by a commission, not the citizens of the state.
Let’s follow the reasoning here… Under Missouri’s current […]

Does “merit selection” – where lawyers meet in secret to decide who wears the black robes – take politics out of judicial appointments? Not according to Paul Jacob, who runs Missouri’s “merit” plan through the wringer in an excellent piece in Human Events and shows just how political this allegedly non-political system can be.
Jacob […]

It’s always great to see strong voices joining the legal reform cause. So it is with pleasure that I note that the Missouri Justice Alliance, a project of the Missouri Chamber Legal Foundation, is up and running.
Composed of more than 20 businesses and associations, the Alliance says it will fight to improve the state’s legal […]