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February 26, 2006
Not really Roy's fault
Costly high court races denounced
I'd like to blame him, but saying that the Ten Commandments thing had anything to do with politicizing Supreme Court races is silly. They were already thoroughly politicized when he was a podunk judge back in Gadsden.
The real problem is so-called "tort reform" and the efforts of moneyed interests who, already having supressed any regulation in this state, also want to savage the court system so that businesses can do anything they want up to and including kill people without having to pay any penalty. So they give money to any right-wing loon with a law degree they can find and pack the state Supreme Court.
Here's a simple way to tell what they're doing. The top four offices in the state are governor, lt. governor, attorney general, and secretary of state. Two of these offices are held by Republicans, two by Democrats. Democrats control both houses of the state legislature. Republicans do hold both US Senate seats, but two of the seven House seats are still held by Democrats. So it's all fairly even.
Republicans hold all nine places on the state Supreme Court.
I want nonpartisan elections but the story doesn't mention the idea. They're all up on an appointment method that isn't going to happen and which the vast majority of voters oppose.
Posted by Mac Thomason at February 26, 2006 01:48 PM
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