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Missouri will keep their merit selection system for selecting judges after a petition aimed at replacing the merit system with competitive partisan elections failed to get enough signatures to be placed on the November ballot.

Ken Morley, an adviser to the Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund, a group that fought the petition, said:

This cynical attempt to inject special interests into Missouri’s courtrooms was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. This monumental failure by those wishing to politicize our courts sends a strong message that Missourians want to keep our system of justice fair and impartial.

In 1940 Missouri became the first state to adopt merit selection of judges in lieu of elections, and the citizens of the state have again realized that Merit Selection is the best way to ensure a fair and impartial system free of partisan politics and fundraising.

As the website of Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund reads:

As hard-working Missourians, we need to support a legal system that is not influenced by political pressure or special interests. Over the last 70 years, Missouri has become the model for a fair and impartial court system.

Read the Gavel Grab post here.

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