Intro: Missouri Chief Justice urges lawmakers to keep their hands off nonpartisan selection process of the state judges. Suvro Banerji (SUE-vro BAN-er-gee) has more from the state capitol.
RunTime:0:35 There were mixed reactions among the Missouri lawmakers when the state's Chief Justice Laura Stith urged the nonpartisan plan for selecting judges. During a joint session of the General Assembly, the state's highest judge says that the system keeps politics out of judicial selection. While the Democrats applauded to the speech of the Chief Justice, a Republican critic charged the system giving too much power to lawyers in selecting judges.
Reporting from Jefferson City, this is Suvro Banerji.
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Description: "In the nearly three-quarters of a century since its adoption, Missouri's nonpartisan merit-selection court plan has worked well in attracting high-quality judges in the least political way..."
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