judgesonmerit.org

In its year-end story round-up, The Daily Page in Wisconsin discusses the Wisconsin State Journal’s call for Merit Selection, calling it the year’s “Best Crusade:”

[The issue is] reform of the state’s system of selecting Supreme Court justices. Instead of letting governors pick most of them, interspersed with ugly contests bankrolled by special interests, the paper is calling for merit selection, where applicants are culled by a nonpartisan panel. Don’t think it’s a good idea? Just watch the high court election we’re likely to have next year.

As we’ve written here and here, Wisconsin judicial elections have been getting more expensive, partisan and divisive.  The expectations are that this will only intensify.  We hope the Journal’s “Crusade” will continue to attract positive attention and gain more adherents.