You Be The Judge Of Judges.

Well guys and gals, this Tuesday is election day. I hope you vote. It's all about locals. Which doesn't excite the press, but it's really important. Consider facts like judges are, more and more, being bought and sold on the open election market. Now you may find that hard to believe, but if you haven't been watching ads on TV against one judge or another, you've missed out and you're in a much better position to select a judge then the average voter. Here's the problem. Special interest groups are spending money to fight for or against the election of judges. But judges aren't supposed to be in favor of the desires of special interests. Nor are they supposed to be against the desires of those special interests. Judges are supposed to follow the law. If a special interest doesn't like the law, they need to support change in the law, not the courts. I don't know why judges are elected anyway. Or rather, I think a non-partisan committee, for state and federal courts would be better. The committee picks two people it feels would be best for the court. Then the people vote on those two. The only question then is, who picks the committee members? All I know is that it would need to be almost anyone but a politician. Seriously. Judges are not supposed to be Republican or Democrat. When it comes to their decisions on the bench, they're supposed to think neutral. They're supposed to be impartial. If they have a friend involved in the case, they're supposed to requse themselves. How come? Because they're supposed to be neutral, remember? In fact there should be a law that any judge who gets a dime from any person, special interest or political party should be disqualified from trying a case that in any way relates to that person, special interest or party. It's not that I don't trust people, it's just that I don't think people can be trusted.