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Constitutional convention supporters target Alaska’s judicial selection process

While social conservatives have campaigned against retaining state judges in recent elections, this year they are focused on a constitutional convention as a way to

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Alaska is one of 26 states that picks judges through a council. Here’s why some voters want a change.

When the framers of Alaska’s constitution were debating how the state should pick its judges, the goal was to remove politics from the process as

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Voting For Judges

To the editor: The other day I had the opportunity to learn how judges are evaluated for retention. I knew the Alaska Constitution required a

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Governor pans the nominees for Supreme Court justices

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy today asked the Alaska Judicial Council to reconsider their nominations to the Alaska Supreme Court. He said the choices given to

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Right-wing preachers opposing Carney for Supreme Court seek to impose their politics on all

The right-wing men of the cloth attacking the independent judiciary in Alaska claim their campaign against Supreme Court Justice Sue Carney has nothing to do with her

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Seven Former Attorneys General Support Justice Susan Carney

We are former Attorneys General of the State of Alaska. We served Republican, Democratic, and Alaska Independence party governors. We were appointed by Governors Egan,

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The Alaska Supreme Court needs justices of Sue Carney’s caliber

We shouldn’t be surprised that, in an era where nearly everything has become politicized, the retention of Alaska’s judges has too. As a branch of