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Republicans who want to vote for judge along partisan lines

post #1 of 11
4/5/10 at 9:31pm
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I have been helping my DH go door-to-door stumping for a superior court judicial candidate.
Bottom line, being a judge is supposed to be non-partisan and non-prejudiced. I believe both of the candidates possess that quality (many years ago, I dated the opposition for 3 years ).
Anyway, I have been startled by the high number of people who want to know which party our candidate is registered with. They have not been satisfied with being told that it's a non-partisan seat; without fail, they have been more than happy to tell me that they (the voters) are Republican and will not be voting for a candidate that is not a registered Republican.
Does that make sense - insisting that the local judge maintain political lines?
another piece of irony - without exception, they tell me they love our other current judge, who BTW (not that I mention it) is a Democrat (and close personal friend)
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post #2 of 11
4/6/10 at 6:34am
What people say when you go door to door and how they vote are often two different things and I think the majority of people do not believe in non-partisanship because they can't be non partisan and therefore believe others wont be either

People ask local city councillors here too and they don't have party lines in the same way that provincial/federal politicians do
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post #3 of 11
4/6/10 at 6:38am
Is it illegal for the judges to mention their affiliation in the election? Or is it indicated on the signs? On the ballot?

I don't think judges should be political in nature, but nobody has ever found a good way of doing it otherwise.
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post #4 of 11
4/6/10 at 7:36pm
I've about had it with liberal, activist judges that legislate from the Bench, that is NOT their job. And the slap-on-the-wrist sentences liberal judges give for the crime of murder of little children makes me vomit.

So heck YES I want to know where a judge stands on crime. Whether he is going to be a bleeding heart or whether he will be tough on violent crime.
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post #5 of 11
4/7/10 at 7:48am
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
I've about had it with liberal, activist judges that legislate from the Bench, that is NOT their job. And the slap-on-the-wrist sentences liberal judges give for the crime of murder of little children makes me vomit.

So heck YES I want to know where a judge stands on crime. Whether he is going to be a bleeding heart or whether he will be tough on violent crime.
I couldn't agree more...conservative activist judges legislating from the bench are a pox on the entire process. After all, that's NOT their job!
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post #6 of 11
4/7/10 at 1:55pm
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
I've about had it with liberal, activist judges that legislate from the Bench, that is NOT their job. And the slap-on-the-wrist sentences liberal judges give for the crime of murder of little children makes me vomit.

So heck YES I want to know where a judge stands on crime. Whether he is going to be a bleeding heart or whether he will be tough on violent crime.
You've said the above a number of times, and I wonder how it jives with U.S. prison population statistics? This article is from 2008, but still gives a good summary of U.S. "crime and punishment" in comparison to other countries:

U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations



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The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.
Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.
The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London.
World Prison Populations
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Half of the world's prison population of about nine million is held in the US, China or Russia.
Prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per 100,000. In Russia the rate is 581.
At 145 per 100,000, the imprisonment rate of England and Wales is at about the midpoint worldwide.
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post #7 of 11
4/7/10 at 2:04pm
Just wait for the republican circus show when John Paul Stevens retires this year. I'm already hearing rumors that they are trying to get him to retire after mid term elections in the hopes that they'll have more people to filibuster the appointment.
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post #8 of 11
4/7/10 at 3:08pm
Has anyone heard the comedienne Kathleen Madigan's take on electing judges?
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post #9 of 11
4/7/10 at 6:43pm
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
I couldn't agree more...conservative activist judges legislating from the bench are a pox on the entire process. After all, that's NOT their job!
It's not any judge's job to legislate from the bench. But when I read about mother's putting their babies in the freaking microwave and roasting them alive and getting probation for this horrible crime, I have a problem with it. When perverts are given light sentences and get released from prison, only to go out and rape and kill MORE little kids I have a problem with that.

As far as the U.S. having more prisoners than other industrial countries, my wish is to keep all the people convicted of violent crim in prison for the maximum allowed by law. As far as non-violent crime, that is another story.
I don't think prostitutes should be imprisoned, I do think people that steal from other people whether non-violent robbery or bad check writing, shop lifting, embezzlement, etc. those people should have to make restitution plus interest and community service.

http://www.tinyvital.com/blog/2003/7...n-crime-rates/

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Posted By John Moore on July 26, 2003

A German lawyer, in response to another blog entry (German Justice: 2 Days Per Murder), repeated the common European belief that the United States has a much higher crime rate than major European countries. The facts are quite different…

[UPDATE 8/15/2003 - For sources, see end of article]

[Warning: this article is politically incorrect. If you are likely to be offended by this, you need to read it!]

Here are Interpol 2001 crime statistics (rate per 100,000):

•4161 – US
•7736 – Germany
•6941 – France
•9927 – England and Wales
Thus the US has a substantially lower crime rate than the major European countries!

Here are the Interpol 1995 crime statistics (rate per 100,000):

•5278 – US
•8179 – Germany
•6316 – France
•7206 – England & Wales
More at link. Sources are included at the end of the article. Stats of Europe from Interpol, stats of U.S. from Department of Justice.
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post #10 of 11
4/7/10 at 6:47pm
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Originally Posted by Momofmany View Post
Just wait for the republican circus show when John Paul Stevens retires this year. I'm already hearing rumors that they are trying to get him to retire after mid term elections in the hopes that they'll have more people to filibuster the appointment.
1. There is ALWAYS a circus show by the minority party when a Supreme Court Justice retires, nothing new there.

2. I don't blame them, I would expects nothing less.

Do you really think the Democratic politicians would do any different if the roles were reversed?
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post #11 of 11
4/9/10 at 9:34am
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Do you really think the Democratic politicians would do any different if the roles were reversed?
They not only WOULD do it, they HAVE done it.

I heard someone reading a letter from one of the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee protesting insufficient time to investigate some late revelations on the last nominee under the Bush administration. If I were a Republican on that committee, I would get a copy of it, cross out the Republican nominee's name and put in the Democrat nominee's name, and hand it in.

It's always funny to hear one party protesting the very tactics they used when they were in the majority or minority. Let's not forget that the famous "Gang of Fourteen" were formed to try to get around unreasonable Democratic opposition to various appointments.
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