Editorial: No Place for Politics
Fair Courts E-lert

Date of E-Lert – 02/13/12

Bibliographic Info:
Source: Commercial Appeal
Date: February 9, 2012

Editorials in both the Commercial Appeal and the Tennessean express support  for a constitutional amendment to legitimize Tennessee’s merit selection process for picking appellate judges proposed by Governor Bill Haslam and the House and Senate majority leadership.  As the Commercial Appeal commentary notes, “f that's what it takes to keep overt politics out of state appellate judgeship selections, we hope the governor gets his way.” However, some Republican legislators, led by Representative Glen Casada, are pushing for Tennessee to switch to popular election of judges.