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Another Reason Not to Support a Constitutional Convention

When Wickersham’s Conscience was a first-year law student, our Civil Procedure professor took us on a field trip to the Cook County Courthouse.1 Even fifty years

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A change to the judicial selection process is a risky endeavor

What makes a good judge? It is a person able to apply the law impartially without regard to politics. A good judge is an experienced

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Be an informed voter on retaining judges

A dear friend surprised me recently when she confided “I always vote no on all the judges on the ballot.” Although my friend is typically

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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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In support of Alaska’s fair and impartial judiciary

A justice system that is impartial and fair to all is not easily achieved, but always worth the effort. Whatever one’s opinion about the selection

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When it comes to Alaska’s judiciary, our founders got it right

We are writing in response to politically motivated attacks on our state judiciary that are disingenuous and misleading, threaten the fairness and integrity of Alaska’s

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Judges are on November’s Ballot

Alaska Judicial Council’s Executive Director, Susanne Dipietro reminding us that Judicial Retention will be on November’s Ballot. Source: KBear

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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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In support of Alaska’s independent judiciary

A justice system that is impartial and fair to all is not easily achieved, but always worth the effort. Whatever one’s opinion about the selection

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League of Women Voters of Alaska’s Position on Judicial Appointment & Retention

The League of Women Voters of Alaska strongly supports a judicial appointment and retention process that is merit-based, transparent, representative of and responsive to the

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Alaska Court System fires magistrate judge who wrote public letter criticizing Republican Party

The Alaska Court System fired the state’s longest-serving magistrate judge on Wednesday after he wrote a letter to the editor saying that the Republican Party “is actively