Add to ORKGDuring the 85th Legislative Session, Texas lawmakers have the opportunity to enact reforms to the current process by which the state selects its judges—in partisan elections in combination with a straight-ticket voting option. Political science fellow Mark P. Jones analyzes four reform options and their respective advantages and disadvantages
This article has three purposes: (1) to determine the impact of the partisan election on the retenti...
Legend has it that a long-ago Chief Justice of Texas said, “No judicial selection system is worth a ...
The scholarly debate about how to select state judges has been ongoing for decades; the public debat...
I am going to set the stage by providing a little background about the various methods that States a...
Americans have struggled since colonial times with the notion that judges should be independent, yet...
This Article addresses the concerns about the implications of an elected judiciary. Advocating for o...
Judicial selection by popular election is no longer practical in Texas. Texans must question the ade...
The article aims to introduce the selection of systems used throughout the United States of America ...
American states have experimented with different methods of judicial selection for two centuries, cr...
One of the most frequently quoted comments on judicial reform is the late New Jersey Chief Justice A...
The Symposium entitled Judicial Professionalism in a New Era of Judicial Selection, held on Octobe...
Campaign financing andparty identification are generally considered to be the primary factors in det...
This Article contains two parts. First, it sets forth the context of the symposium, including reflec...
This article argues that popularly electing judges is incompatible with the three basic elements of ...
How best to select judges has been the subject of great debate ever since the founding of the United...
This article has three purposes: (1) to determine the impact of the partisan election on the retenti...
Legend has it that a long-ago Chief Justice of Texas said, “No judicial selection system is worth a ...
The scholarly debate about how to select state judges has been ongoing for decades; the public debat...
I am going to set the stage by providing a little background about the various methods that States a...
Americans have struggled since colonial times with the notion that judges should be independent, yet...
This Article addresses the concerns about the implications of an elected judiciary. Advocating for o...
Judicial selection by popular election is no longer practical in Texas. Texans must question the ade...
The article aims to introduce the selection of systems used throughout the United States of America ...
American states have experimented with different methods of judicial selection for two centuries, cr...
One of the most frequently quoted comments on judicial reform is the late New Jersey Chief Justice A...
The Symposium entitled Judicial Professionalism in a New Era of Judicial Selection, held on Octobe...
Campaign financing andparty identification are generally considered to be the primary factors in det...
This Article contains two parts. First, it sets forth the context of the symposium, including reflec...
This article argues that popularly electing judges is incompatible with the three basic elements of ...
How best to select judges has been the subject of great debate ever since the founding of the United...
This article has three purposes: (1) to determine the impact of the partisan election on the retenti...
Legend has it that a long-ago Chief Justice of Texas said, “No judicial selection system is worth a ...
The scholarly debate about how to select state judges has been ongoing for decades; the public debat...