April 29, 2009

Family Action Council of Tennessee (www.FACTn.org)

 
 

Judge's Campaign against Campaigning Reveals More Than Intended

 
 

The battle over the election of our state appellate and Supreme Court judges is heating up. And it’s apparently unnerving Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder. Perhaps she doesn’t appreciate the fact that she’s engaging in the very type of activity she supposedly condemns—campaigning. And at the same time she revealed how little she knows about basketball and her contempt for a whole lot of fellow Americans.

 
 

Too Much CSI Makes for 'Victim Discrimination'

 
 

With crime scene investigation television shows on practically every night (or so it seems), it seems that constantly watching investigators search for a motive has infected the minds of some of our legislators, “motivating” them to treat some people like second-class victims.

 
 

Breaking News on Judicial Elections: Ramsey Stands Strong for the State Constitution

 
 

A more complete story will be written in the coming days about the politics of the legislation that will determine whether our state Supreme Court Judges will have to run for their position in contested elections or continue to be appointed by the Governor and subject only to a yes-no retention referendum. But this morning, in an unprecedented move, Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey helped move out of the Senate Government Operations Committee a bill that would provide for the election of Supreme Court Judges by a process meeting the requirement of our state Constitution that these Judges be “elected by the qualified voters of the state.”

 


 
     
  

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