judicial selection

The University of Tennessee College Democrats have decided to endorse a primary challenger over an incumbent legislator:

Sen. Dewayne Bunch gives a rundown on the judicial selection process and why the current system is bought and paid for.

When Wilder was in power it was "Cant we all just get along?" "Why do we need to argue this issue?" "Why be partisan?" when ever any conservative issue came up. The sheep went with it.

In the latest installment of Tennessee's Judicial Selection soap opera, only two persons have applied to be considered (note: I disagree with our current system of selecting judges) for appointment to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Two people.

Ron Ramsey talks about his reasons and desires for change in the Wilder judicial selection process. Many people still feel it should just go to the voters as the constitution requires.

In baseball when a player is caught between two bases it is called being caught in a pickle. Usually the player runs back and forth between two players playing catch with the ball over his head as the distance between them gets closer and closer. The base runner knows he is about to run out of time unless something unforeseen happens.

Clint Brewer today attempts to make the case that Senator John Wilder’s failure to extend the Tennessee plan for judicial selection was not a case of partisan politics, as Wilder himself asserted upon his defeat on the Senate floor, but instead was simply a case of senators following a tradition laid out by Senator Wilde

The Wall Street Journal points out that Tennessee is the first state ever to dump "merit selection" of judges after adopting that system.

The wind down of the “Tennessee Plan” for the selection of judges makes the Wall Street Journal:

As the left is being noted as great complainers calling Republicans partisan for the senates unwillingness to vote on Wilders judicial selection and his motion to pull his bill directly to the senate floor I had another similar situation come to mind (SJR127).