judicial selection commission

Yes and no, says Bill Hobbs:

From the Tennessee Supreme Court's website:

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SELECTION

Supreme Court Vacancy

Pursuant to the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated Section 17-4-101 et seq., notice is hereby given that the Judicial Selection Commission meet on Monday, August 18, 2008, in Legislative Plaza, Hearing Room 12, Nashville, TN, to initiate the process of filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court

Attorney C. Barry Ward of the law firm of Glankler Brown in Memphis, a member of the Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission, and Brian Fitzpatrick, a member of the Vanderbilt law faculty in Nashville, an advocate for scrapping the Tennessee Plan, debate Judicial Selection at Business Tennessee.

American Courthouse comments on Tennessee Gov.

Phil Bredesen may not like the Judicial Selection Commission but he doesn’t want to go throwing out the baby with the bathwater either:

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey explains his reasons and goals for trying to reform the state's judicial selection process, in this op-ed at TriCities.com.

There is an excellent analysis article in the Memphis Daily News today regarding the possible demise of Tennessee's current non-democratic method of selecting appellate judges - the so-called "merit selecti

Bill Dries explains the difficulty in fashioning a compromise inbetween the “Tennessee Plan” and the direct election of appellate and supreme court judges in Tennessee:

Tennessee's anti-democratic Judicial Selection Commission has moved a step closer to extinction now that the state Senate has rejected a last-ditch effort to pass legislation to renew the commission's existence.

My post earlier today about the legislative future of Tennessee's Judicial Selection Commission prompted a reader to email with a series of good questions about the so-called "Tennessee Plan," under which a small group of lawyer special interest groups and politicians picks your state appellate judges and supreme co