Texas government course
Among the twenty-two states that elect judges, Texas is one of only seven states that run partisan judicial elections. In partisan elections, the political party of judicial candidates is indicated on ballots.
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- What are the arguments for and against electing judges versus appointing judges to judicial offices?
- What are the arguments for and against partisan versus nonpartisan judicial elections?
- What is the relationship between judicial independence and the impartiality of judicial decisions?
- Do you agree with Wallace B. Jefferson, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who once said: “We shouldn’t have partisan elections. I do not like the concept of a Republican or Democratic judge. I think fundraising undermines the confidence in a fair and impartial judicial system”?
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