It's hard to measure what effect campaign donations, insufficient voter information, low voter participation and uncontested judicial races have had on the quality of the judiciary or its decisions. But researchers report that the public's confidence in the court system has eroded. However, judges still ranked higher than the governor, legislators and the media. The more that we have judges out there interacting with the public, the more the public is going to have faith that the system is working. In Holman' s thinking, public confidence in the judicial system won't be restored until the method of selecting justices is made more democratic.
Any time there's that kind of barrier, there's no trust.
There's no public accountability. Either we've got to make it much easier for voters to make informed choices, or we've got to reduce the number of choices and have all judges appointed. We should either have a democratic system or appointment. This page was designed and created by the Boulevards team.