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		<title>Iowa Senate Candidate Accused of Telling the Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 19:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Waterman, President of the Iowa State Bar Association takes an Iowa state Senate candidate Jeff Mullen to task  for claiming his opponent “is endorsed by the left wing Iowa State Bar Association, the people who gave us a radical Supreme Court and gay marriage.”  Waterman wants us to believe the Iowa Bar is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Trouble for Florida Justices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Florida Supreme Court justices seeking reelection in a November retention vote failed to clear the 50 percent bar in a Hillsborough County straw poll last weekend.  By strong majorities of as high as 73 percent, straw poll participants said Justices Lewis, Quince and Pariente should not retain their seats on the bench.
“A growing number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Justice Hitting the Campaign Trail in Bid to Save Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins told reporters recently he plans to publicly defend his vote to overturn Iowa’s defense of marriage act and is already campaigning actively to save his spot on the bench after three of his colleagues were dumped by Iowa voters.
In addition to conducting media interviews, Wiggins and other Iowa justices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panic in Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Restore Justice 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prospect that three Florida Supreme Court justices might actually lose their retention elections this fall has the mainstream media in a full-blown panic.  Writing in the Bradenton Times, columnist Dennis Maley calls for further insulating judges from the public by prohibiting groups such as Restore Justice 2012 from raising money to oppose justices they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial Selection Reform Pushed in Nebraska</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merit Selection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nebraska attorney Steve Grasz continues to push his reform plan to make Nebraska’s “merit” selection system less political and more accountable. In a Lincoln Journal-Star op-ed, Grasz notes that under “merit” selection, political influence is not eliminated, but merely moved behind closed doors, outside public view:
“Instead of the entire electorate participating in and observing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Voters Really Incapable of Choosing Judges?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An op-ed in the Huntsville (AL) Times caught my eye because it provides more insight into the thinking of “merit” selection proponents.  “Many contemporary voters,” we are told “seem to lack an understanding about the work of state judges and particularly the context of judicial decision-making in the typical case at the local courthouse.”

So, exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great  follow-up from Carrie Severino on the opportunity Missouri voters will have this November to wrest judicial selection out of the hands of the trial lawyers lobby.  Who currently controls the all-powerful judicial nominating commission in Missouri, Severino asks?
“In Missouri, they tend to be members of the Missouri Association of Trail Attorneys (MATA).  MATA is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shady Dealings Rock Michigan High Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Young is calling on his colleague, Justice Diane Hathaway, to respond publicly to allegations by WXYZ TV she shuffled real estate holdings in and out of her name in order to qualify for a “short sale” on her home in swanky Grosse Pointe Park.
Powerline offers the following analysis from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Missouri</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carrie Severino at NRO’s Bench Memos weighs in on the pending constitutional amendment in Missouri that would weaken the power of legal special interests when it comes to picking judges.  She insightfully quotes Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist 76 explaining why nomination by the state’s elected chief executive is preferable to an unelected committee.  For a fuller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri To Vote On “Merit” Selection Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“A radical destruction of the judiciary.”  That’s what one hysterical “merit” selection proponent has labeled a constitutional amendment in Missouri that would allow the democratically elected governor to appoint four members to the state’s judicial nominating board instead of the current three.  The proposed amendment will be on the ballot this November, after the [...]]]></description>
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