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    O’Connor: Judicial elections bad for business (access required)

    Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has been a vocal opponent of judicial elections, is touting a new reason why she believes judges should be appointed, not elected. It's good for business, she said. As some states ponder scrapping judicial elections for a merit-based appointment system, O'Connor said she recently talked to Iowa business officials, who ...

    This entry was posted on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 7:31 am and is filed under Election, Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    One Response to “O’Connor: Judicial elections bad for business (access required)”

    1. Murder conviction reversed, law debt, blogs, blawgs and dogs - eAdvantage says:
      September 24, 2010 at 9:31 am

      [...] Dicta, the blog of Minnesota Lawyer’s national sister publication (Lawyers USA), has a post detailing former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s position view that [...]

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