Elected judges don’t help much from what I’ve seen. Ordinary incompetence/corruption/bad judgment isn’t very visible to the public, and you literally need a law degree to parse a lot of this stuff in a reasonable amount of time. And you still have all the problems you get with any U.S. election, too.
Indeed. The main benefit is the ability to eventually boot out nut cases. We could have instant recall of the positions too, but I’ll take what I can get.
To be fair, making judges elected rather than appointed is like, the one thing that I think Texas governance got right.
Elected judges don’t help much from what I’ve seen. Ordinary incompetence/corruption/bad judgment isn’t very visible to the public, and you literally need a law degree to parse a lot of this stuff in a reasonable amount of time. And you still have all the problems you get with any U.S. election, too.
Indeed. The main benefit is the ability to eventually boot out nut cases. We could have instant recall of the positions too, but I’ll take what I can get.