And now for something completely different
It's March 1, 2011, and I am pleased to announce my Independent candidacy for Justice Court Judge in Forrest County's First Justice Court District. This District stretches across the western portion of Forrest County, and includes 19th Avenue west to the Lamar County line, Dixie, Brooklyn, and Elks Lake, down to the Stone County line.
I'm running as an Independent because we don't need our judicial process tainted by partisan politics. Did you know that our Justice Court judges are the only judges in the state elected by a partisan process? The reason for this is that Justice Court judges are not considered judicial officers under state law! I can tell you that my clients are shocked to learn this; a DUI trial in justice court, or a small-claims suit in justice court, feels plenty judicial to us!
If you paid attention to the Chicago mayoral election, you saw the poisonous danger of partisan judicial elections. The Christian Science Monitor details the Illinois partisan judicial selection process, and talks about its impact on the mayoral election. Our judicial elections for Circuit, Chancery, County, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court judges are non-partisan for a very good reason: we don't want political party leadership telling us who will be our judges.
Join me in my quest to continue the fine tradition of service in our Justice Courts, and help break the partisan stranglehold on justice court.
I'm running as an Independent because we don't need our judicial process tainted by partisan politics. Did you know that our Justice Court judges are the only judges in the state elected by a partisan process? The reason for this is that Justice Court judges are not considered judicial officers under state law! I can tell you that my clients are shocked to learn this; a DUI trial in justice court, or a small-claims suit in justice court, feels plenty judicial to us!
If you paid attention to the Chicago mayoral election, you saw the poisonous danger of partisan judicial elections. The Christian Science Monitor details the Illinois partisan judicial selection process, and talks about its impact on the mayoral election. Our judicial elections for Circuit, Chancery, County, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court judges are non-partisan for a very good reason: we don't want political party leadership telling us who will be our judges.
Join me in my quest to continue the fine tradition of service in our Justice Courts, and help break the partisan stranglehold on justice court.
Labels: Announcement, Independent, Justice Court
posted by Unknown at 10:36 AM
1 Comments:
The link to the ms code is broken. It seems that the other day, michie.com started using lexis-nexis to provide access to the code. It would also be nice if you were to actually cite the relevant statute in case the link is to be broken again. Also, if you pay close attention to the URL, you will notice that it is encoded to prevent people from spidering the site and downloading all the statutes locally so that they can perform their own searches in private manner, rather than have their search queries (and page accesses) logged for future reference. On top of this, I am not sure that you will be able to provide a persistent link to the new site that is holding the code. If the statute has not been amended since around 2004, you may be able to provide a persistent link using www.mscode.com, as they provide better access to more outdated code.
Also, best of luck with the race!
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