That just sounds like chaos to me. At least in my experience, judicial races in NY are extremely boring and I never really hear about Republican judges making insane rulings, in part because everyone knows the Governor's race is really where statewide judicial politics is litigated.
To put it another way, judicial elections shouldn't be a…
That just sounds like chaos to me. At least in my experience, judicial races in NY are extremely boring and I never really hear about Republican judges making insane rulings, in part because everyone knows the Governor's race is really where statewide judicial politics is litigated.
To put it another way, judicial elections shouldn't be about making policy, which is what these high court elections in various states seem to be now.
NC GOP is power hungry as can be and chaos is what they do and LOVE. They do EVERYTHING possible to entrench their power. They got rid of straight party voting because it benefits Democrats, they got rid of a three-day grace period for absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted.
And what's really egregious is that they took away the governor's power to appoint members of the NCSBE and gave it to the state auditor (a Republican). And that was after being rejected by federal judges AND voters over years of court battles. That auditor has now appointed three Republicans (with Phil Berger's approval), kept two Democrats and got rid of election director Karen Brinson Bell -- a holdover from Cooper/Stein.
The Court of Appeals did make some bad rulings, but no, nothing insane. Cuomo was essentially a moderate Republican, and even Pataki was not an extremist, so there would be little reason for the New York Court of Appeals to make an insane ruling.
That just sounds like chaos to me. At least in my experience, judicial races in NY are extremely boring and I never really hear about Republican judges making insane rulings, in part because everyone knows the Governor's race is really where statewide judicial politics is litigated.
To put it another way, judicial elections shouldn't be about making policy, which is what these high court elections in various states seem to be now.
NC GOP is power hungry as can be and chaos is what they do and LOVE. They do EVERYTHING possible to entrench their power. They got rid of straight party voting because it benefits Democrats, they got rid of a three-day grace period for absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted.
And what's really egregious is that they took away the governor's power to appoint members of the NCSBE and gave it to the state auditor (a Republican). And that was after being rejected by federal judges AND voters over years of court battles. That auditor has now appointed three Republicans (with Phil Berger's approval), kept two Democrats and got rid of election director Karen Brinson Bell -- a holdover from Cooper/Stein.
Because I assume not everyone will know what the NCSBE is, as I didn't: https://www.ncsbe.gov/ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
The Court of Appeals did make some bad rulings, but no, nothing insane. Cuomo was essentially a moderate Republican, and even Pataki was not an extremist, so there would be little reason for the New York Court of Appeals to make an insane ruling.