Voters Moving to Oust Judges Over Decisions

[Francesca9]

Source: New York Times

... The three Supreme Court justices on the ballot this year are indeed the targets of a well-financed campaign to oust them. But the effort has less to do with undoing same-sex marriage — which will remain even if the judges do not — than sending a broader message far beyond this state’s borders: voters can remove judges whose opinions they dislike.

Around the country, judicial elections that were designed to be as apolitical as possible are suddenly as contentious as any another race...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/politics/25judges.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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This is nothing new, progressive judges usually face well-financed opposition. Rose Bird in California might have been the first 30 or so years ago.