Arizonans faced a ballot initiative last month that would have overhauled the state’s judicial selection system. It was a highly partisan proposal that would have jettisoned the state’s longstanding system of evaluating and retaining judges at the end of a set term of office, and replaced it with retroactive life terms dependent only on oddly defined categories of “good behavior.”
The Arizona Capitol Times has a nice summary of the voters’ decisive rejection to the proposal, which has the effect of maintaining the state’s status quo. This is a victory for all Arizonans, who preserved their best system for maintaining a fair and balanced judiciary.
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