Litigation

S.C. Judicial Elections Proceed Despite Challenge

By Peter Hardin

Despite a legal challenge under way to South Carolina’s system for picking judges, the state’s legislature proceeded with a number of judicial elections this week.

The state Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether the existing system threatens judicial independence. The case began with an attempt to oust a family law judge (see Gavel Grab.)

State Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell, a Republican, said legal research indicated there was “minimal risk” in proceeding with the elections. “We’re very confident of our legal position in this — that the process we have is constitutional,” he was quoted by the Post and Courier as saying.

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).