In my State and Local government class, I learned something very interesting. On the state level, judges are not appointed, but elected. Popularly elected judges, who have to campaign for re-election. I'm not sure I agree with this method, for a number of reasons.
The first reason is that the role of the judiciary on the state level is reduced to something so similar to a politician's role it is not even funny. Judges are forced to campaign for re-election, which means that they...
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