January 8, 2018 •
North Carolina Special Session to Convene on January 10
The North Carolina General Assembly will convene for a special session on January 10 to address several topics, including judicial reform. Lawmakers may consider eliminating judicial elections and instead institute an appointment process for selecting judges.
The North Carolina General Assembly will convene for a special session on January 10 to address several topics, including judicial reform.
Lawmakers may consider eliminating judicial elections and instead institute an appointment process for selecting judges.
November 1, 2011 •
Tuesday News Roundup
Text messages, government transparency, legislative sessions, and judicial races
Anonymous and unsolicited text messages are being sent against democratic candidates in Virginia. Here is the Washington Post article “Anti-Democratic text messages in Northern Va. prompt lawsuit, complaints” by Anita Kumar.
Government Technology discusses the tension between the demands of government transparency and the realities of state bugdet constraints in “Transparency Demands Cost Governments Money” by Sarah Rich.
NCSL has updated their 2012 Legislative Session Calendar.
Judicial races are getting expensive. PoliticsPA.com posted “Pa. Rated as Second Costliest Judicial Elections; Candidates Weigh in” by Sari Heidenreich. Here is the recent study by the Brennan Center For Justice, “The New Politics of Judicial Elections: 2009-10” that ranks judicial elections in the states.
Photo of texting by Alton on Wikipedia.
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