Reply #16: Alaska courts don't let them get away with much

[harpboy_ak]

Loren Leman, the Lite Gov. with one eyebrow (seriously!) was trounced pretty badly by the courts for trying to keep initiatives off the ballot and for trying to rewrite the sponsor's descriptions of them.

Alaska courts are independent; a committee reviews judicial applicants and forwards a short list to the Governor. Judges thus appointed face a retention election every 10 years; campaigning is forbidden.

A hell of a lot better than the corruption of states where judges and DAs are elected, like Texas. The folks that wrote our constitution 50 years ago saw what went on in states like that and came up with something that works very well.