ALABAMA SUPREME COURT | SUE BELL COBB | CHIEF JUSTICE | AMERICA~JUSTICE

I Was Alabama’s Top Judge. I’m Ashamed by What I Had to Do to Get There .. There isn’t a perfect system for selecting judges, but there certainly is a better one. Let’s start with nonpartisan elections, the public financing of judicial campaigns—which was successful in North Carolina until the legislature killed it in 2013—and merit-based selection of judges, a system that can include nonpartisan screening commissions, gubernatorial appointment and retention elections...

On The Bench March/April 2015  How money is ruining America’s courts.  By SUE BELL COBB   >>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/judicial-elections-fundraising-115503.html#.VPypyeGCn6O>>  >  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/judicial-elections-fundraising-115503_Page2.html#ixzz3TpGSDuPz