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MO Supreme Court | Missouri Political News Service - Part 4

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Video: Missouri’s Chief Justice Stith Explains “the Value” of the Missouri Plan

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

A sitting chief justice involved in political ads. Nothing like using the power and prestige of the bench to further a political agenda!!!! Hat tip: MissouriBar [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XGqaxYyJMjE” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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UPDATE: Just Say NO to Spinden & Baker

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

UPDATE: Last night Chief Justice Laura Denver Stith, Judge Russell and Judge Wolff were seen hobnobbing with members of the Appellate Judicial Commission at the Doubletree Hotel. Here at MOPNS, we assume that they were enjoying fillet and wine on the taxpayers dime. We suspect the liberal commission, learning nothing from last year’s tainted process, […]

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The Appellate Judicial Commission Needs To Do Its Job!

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Better Courts for Missouri  press release: (Jefferson City, MO) – The Missouri Supreme Court recently lost one of the best judges to ever sit on the Court when Judge Limbaugh resigned to become a federal judge. More than twenty people have applied to take his place. The Appellate Judicial Commission will review the list of […]

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Sister to Sister?

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Will Chief Judge Laura Stith ensure Judge Nanette Baker makes the upcoming panel for the Supreme Court to grease the tracks for her sister, Rebecca Stith, to become a judge? Is this a conflict of interest? Given the situation, shouldn’t Stith recuse herself from this selection process? Based on her past we doubt she will. […]

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WSJ: The ABA Plots a Judicial Coup

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

“Merit selection merely takes the partisan politics out of the public eye and into backrooms stocked with political insiders.” Some bad ideas never seem to die, especially in the hands of a crafty attorney. That’s the story now playing out at the American Bar Association, which voted at its annual meeting this week to endorse […]

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“Missouri Plan” Back in the National Spotlight

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Term limits and petition reform activist Paul Jacob writes in Human Events magazine today on the new vacancy on the Missouri Supreme Court. The current vacancy was created by the appointment of Justice Steven Limbaugh last week to the federal bench. Jacob, a member of the so called “Oklahoma three” was arrested and charged late […]

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Missouri Plan Defenders Engage In “Politics of Personal Destruction”

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Our friends at FiredUp Missouri are again engaging in the “politics of personal destruction” instead of addressing the so called merits of the Missouri Plan. FUM readers were treated to another post today highlighting their obsession with certain Republican operatives. “We’ve devoted significant space on this site to exposing the folks behind the Adam Smith […]

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Judicial Reform Opponents are Smart

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is a sampling of the mail being sent by attorneys who oppose reform of the Missouri Plan. “Grow the balls,” “go to hell” and “sorehead” are just a few of the slurs being thrown around by these apparently inarticulate attorneys. We guess if our potential million dollar judgements were in jeopardy, we’d be a […]

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Opposition Forces Plotting Against MO Chief Justice?

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Rumors are floating around the Capitol that Supreme Court Judge Patricia Breckenridge, may be the target of a multi-million dollar campaign to remove her from the Supreme Court when she faces voters in her upcoming retention election. Developing…

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Scholars Support Missouri Plan Reform

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

JEFFERSON CITY – Better Courts for Missouri Executive Director Jonathan Bunch today shared several letters submitted by legal scholars urging improvements to the Missouri Plan for selecting judges. According to Bunch, “Legal scholars who have studied judicial selection issues at the federal level and in other states have delivered a clear message: The Missouri Plan […]

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