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SCRAP THE PARTISAN JNCs!

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 The torture never stops...ST. PETERSBURG TIMESTake politics out of Florida's judiciary Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte is a former president of the American Bar Association, former president of Florida State University and former state legislator. Bob Graham is a former U.S. senator, governor and state legislator. By Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte and Bob Graham, Special to the Times "By the early 1970s, patronage politics had severely undermined confidence in Florida's judiciary. After he became governor in 1971, Reubin Askew issued an executive order to limit political influence on judicial selections and establish merit as the basis on which Florida filled vacancies at every level of the court system...The reform was designed to bring discipline to the selection process and to provide a check on the governor's raw power of appointment...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).