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COPYRIGHT 2007 Dolan Media Newswires
Byline: Barbara L. Jones
As things stand right now, the group representing the state's District Court judges will be lobbying against any legislative proposal advocating change in how judicial elections are conducted.
Even though a recent survey of their membership shows that most judges who responded believe that the state should amend its constitution in some manner to change the ways judges are selected, the judges attending a recent Minnesota District Judges Association meeting rebuffed attempts to amend their previous formal position on judicial elections. That position -- passed after the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Republican Party of Minnesota, et al. v. White, et. Al. -- favors maintaining the current election system and opposes switching to a retention system. (The statement doesn't specifically mention the alternative of switching to a strictly appointment-based model, but, by advocating the status quo, implicitly rejects that option as well.)
"We didn't do anything, and it's not because we didn't try," said Hennepin County...
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