Judicial Selection Advantages And Disadvantages

Judicial selection has become a very concerning topic past few years due to the nature of how warped our selection process of judges has become.Some of the process that select judges in America today are life time appointment twenty eight states use this style of voting. Where the Governor and Legislative together pick the judges who will serve . The advantages of this selection process is that only two people are in control of the decision. Yet the disadvantages of appointment is that it can become onesided with the Governor picking judges only from his political party and close associates. One of nine states including Texas uses a partisan election to select all of there judges. The advantages of this type of process is the ultimate support from political party to get the advertising and money that you need to win the election.This to also has its disadvtages, instead of people voting for a judge that will help society they choose the judge that is with there political party making
Not only does political partys influence the vote, they support there judges with huge campian finances that plays a huge role to get commercial as well as the advertising they need to win there judicial selection. This is also a problem because it takes alot of money in partisan elections to run your campiag, if you have a political party's support. By not having a political party you are more likely to drop out of the race due to the finiancial demands being to high. Buckley v Valeo where the case tried to put a limit on how much a political party and voter could spend on a canadiate, but the case was struck down. The only part that was upheld was limiting the size of a campians or individuals contributions. TheJudicial Campaign Fairness Act of 1995 kept lawyers and law firms from donating large sums of money to judicial campaigns then setting limits on most of there