Comments on: Candidates vie to join PA Supreme Court http://whyy.org/cms/news/government-politics/2009/10/22/candidates-vie-to-join-pa-supreme-court/20579 News and Information from WHYY in Philadelphia Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:50:34 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gavel Grab » Friday Media Report http://whyy.org/cms/news/government-politics/2009/10/22/candidates-vie-to-join-pa-supreme-court/20579/comment-page-1#comment-829 Gavel Grab » Friday Media Report Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:58:24 +0000 http://whyy.org/cms/news/?p=20579#comment-829 [...] WHYY: Candidates vie to join PA Supreme Court (w/ AUDIO) Susan Phillips – October 22, 2009 [...] [...] WHYY: Candidates vie to join PA Supreme Court (w/ AUDIO) Susan Phillips – October 22, 2009 [...]

]]> By: David Caroline http://whyy.org/cms/news/government-politics/2009/10/22/candidates-vie-to-join-pa-supreme-court/20579/comment-page-1#comment-825 David Caroline Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:16:16 +0000 http://whyy.org/cms/news/?p=20579#comment-825 Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC) has been advocating for a change in our judicial selection process for more than 20 years. We believe that choosing judges in partisan elections, in which candidates often know little more than the political party of the candidate before making their choice, is not the way to put judges, who routinely decide on the most important matters in citizens' lives, on the bench. Instead, we advocate for a merit-selection system, where appellate judges are chosen based on their qualifications and then face the public in a retention election. That said, we organized this debate, along with the League of Women Voters of PA and students at Temple University Beasley School of Law, to make sure that as long as judges are being elected, the public has as much information going into the voting booth as possible. To learn more about PMC and merit selection, visit our website at www.pmconline.org Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC) has been advocating for a change in our judicial selection process for more than 20 years. We believe that choosing judges in partisan elections, in which candidates often know little more than the political party of the candidate before making their choice, is not the way to put judges, who routinely decide on the most important matters in citizens' lives, on the bench.

Instead, we advocate for a merit-selection system, where appellate judges are chosen based on their qualifications and then face the public in a retention election.

That said, we organized this debate, along with the League of Women Voters of PA and students at Temple University Beasley School of Law, to make sure that as long as judges are being elected, the public has as much information going into the voting booth as possible.

To learn more about PMC and merit selection, visit our website at http://www.pmconline.org

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