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July 6, 2025

Brian Fitzpatrick

Opinion

FITZPATRICK: The case for political appointment of judges

May 23, 2018 admin

There are four methods of selecting judges in use in the United States: partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, political appointment and appointment by a technocratic commission (sometimes called the “Missouri Plan” and often dominated by the […]

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