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Roy Blunt sides with effort to change Missouri’s judicial-selection system
U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, is apparently aligning his U.S. Senate bid with the initiative-petition effort to revamp how Missouri selects its judges in the urban areas and on the higher courts, by requiring that they be elected, not appointed.
Missouri Bar will protect judicial integrity
Op-Ed by Skip Walther | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Regarding “Missouri’s judicial selection process is in need of reform” (June 1): The Missouri Bar Board of Governors disagrees strongly with James Harris’ dismal and misinformed assessment of Missouri’s court…
Is the showdown on Missouri judges over already?
Might the Show-Me justice showdown be over before it even gets started?
Not sure, but opponents of the drive to force a statewide vote on Missouri’s judicial selection process say their analysis shows that vote isn’t going to happen.
BREAKING: Missourians apparently reject proposal to inject partisanship and politics into Missouri courts
Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund today announced that according to an analysis of signatures submitted to the Secretary of State by ShowMe Better Courts, a group proposing a constitutional amendment to dismantle Missouri’s Non-Partisan Court plan, it appears that insufficient signatures were collected to qualify the amendment and send it to the voters. The review predicts that ShowMe Better Courts fell short of the signature requirement in at least six of nine Congressional Districts.
Opponents: Signatures for anti-Missouri Plan initiative fall short
An analysis of the signatures submitted to the Secretary of State’s office by the group seeking to make all judges in Missouri elected fell short of statutory minimums, says a group opposing the effort.
Is Justice for Sale in Missouri?
It now appears that we will have a chance to vote on that question in November. After receiving $675,000 from two Missouri businessmen-David Humphreys and Stan Herzog-and $975,000 in secret donations, James Harris and Show Me Better Courts filed signature petitions with the secretary of state to place an initiative measure on the ballot in November that would end the Missouri Plan in favor of partisan judicial elections statewide.
Anti-Missouri Plan petition carriers claim they have not been paid
A group of St. Louis residents who helped pass petitions for the ShowMe Better Courts ballot drive to call for the direct election of all judges in the state say they haven’t been paid, and they aren’t happy about it.
Humphreys contributes a quarter of a million in effort to scrap Missouri’s judicial selection plan
It has been couched as an effort to bring democracy to the process of choosing judges in Missouri, but the forces who are attempting to scrap Missouri’s much-praised judicial selection process seem to be the kind who are willing to spend every dollar to mold our courts into the best (for them) money can buy.
A rough ruling against scheme to change Mo. judge system
Every single scheme to change the way Missouri chooses and retains its judges is designed to increase the role of money.
That is the first fact and the most enduring one in the long-simmering effort to change Missouri’s courts. It’s always about the money. Always.
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