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Kansans for Life, an anti-abortion group, announced at an anti-abortion rally in January that the group would work to change how Kansas Supreme Court justices are chosen, saying the current system gave too much power to…
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A proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that would have replaced the state's partisan judicial elections with a merit-selection system for appellate judges was killed in the House Judiciary Committee in June. The committee's action came…
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Tennessee's system for choosing appellate judges faced an uncertain future as the Judicial Nominating Commission approached a scheduled end. The commission was scheduled to terminate on June 30, 2012, and to do no further business after…
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court voted not to reappoint attorney John R. Dawson to a second full term on the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, which he chaired. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson wrote to Dawson in a May letter…
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Ohio Right to Life, a Columbus-based anti-abortion group established in 1967, came out against a plan to have Ohio Supreme Court justices appointed through the system known as merit selection. The group was an early major…
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