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On August 23, the WSJ continued its criticism of Merit Selection, to which Gavel Grab posted a thoughtful and thought-provoking response. Gavel Grab poses an important question:

As the Journal continues its critique of merit selection, it should perhaps acknowledge the downsides of its own position. If the public has concluded that big-money politics can twist justice, is that a belief that the Journal would like to see become more common?

This is a major public problem on which the Journal has been, and remains, stubbornly silent. And it is not a liberal or conservative issue, either.

Judges should not be in the fundraising business, but elections require that they be. As fundraising records continue to be broken in judicial elections throughout the country, public confidence in the courts continues to erode. We need a better way to select appellate judges, one that gets them out of the fundraising business. Merit Selection accomplishes this.

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