Name:   architect - Subject:   For GF Date:   9/20/2015 9:05:49 PM (updated 9/20/2015 9:07:48 PM)

Me too!! Personally I think the election of judges is one of the worst ideas ever to come down the pike...I offer Judge Moore as evidence. Of course appointment by politicians is not much better.  A system of selection by an appointed independant panel made up of judges and other jurists selected by the profession and academics might be a better way than either political appointment or election.

I once read a proposal for selecting Supreme and Appeals Court justices by having a pool of 10 or so people for each court who would initially be be nominated by a committee appointed by the president and the Judicial committees of the house and senate and approved by the senate (after vetting of course).  When a vacancy occured a selection for a replacement would be decided by drawing a name from the pool.  The president would then appoint and the senate approve a replacement for the now vacant spot in the pool.  This would not completely remove politics from the system but would lessen the partisanship since neither the president nor either congressional faction would have any idea who would be selected until the name was picked out of the hat.