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CA: Judicial election stirs worries over judges? role

By Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "Next week, San Francisco residents will vote in a judicial election that has the city's legal community fearing that a new level of partisan politics has risen in the judicial system . . . Mr. Nava has campaigned in television ads and in mailers to residents as an openly gay Democrat on a platform of how the Superior Court needs more diversity. He has received endorsements from the city's powerful Democratic Central Committee and Democratic state Sen. Mark Leno, among others. Mr. Ulmer, meanwhile, has criticized Mr. Nava for turning to identity politics and has won the backing of dozens of superior court judges who fear an upsurge in partisan campaigning in judicial races."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).