Re: Vote For The Dead!
Hactar
S. Checker <spa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of which, a particularly disgusting portion of this year's
> election was the open Supreme Court position. The court is evenly split
> between Democrats and Repubs
Poor design. That's just asking for a deadlock on party lines. With most
Courts, that can't happen during normal operation[1] due to them having an
odd number of judges.
> and in the coming year the state is due to
> be redistricted. The feeling was, screw judicial impartiality, if the
> redistricting goes to court we want to have a majority of "our" people
> so that the judgement will go our way.
>
> Republican Joan Orie Melvin won the race.
[1] When a member dies/retires/is fired/whatever, that isn't "normal
operation".
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bill van
wrote:
> In article <jtmls6x...@fernon.pffcu.org>,
> S. Checker <spa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of which, a particularly disgusting portion of this year's
> > election was the open Supreme Court position. The court is evenly split
> > between Democrats and Repubs
>
> Poor design. That's just asking for a deadlock on party lines. With most
> Courts, that can't happen during normal operation[1] due to them having an
> odd number of judges.
>
I could have it wrong, but I read S. Checker's post as meaning the open
position was the odd one which, when filled, would be the tie-breaker.
bill
S. Checker
Ayup. Poorly written on my part.
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