The political bias of Tennessee's commission-based selection of judges is documented in a new study ("A Report on the Political Balance of the Tennessee Plan") by Brian Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt Law School.
The paper demonstrates that so-called "merit-selection" doesn't remove politics from the process of judicial selection, it simply moves the politics behind the scenes and beyond accountability.
See also, Dan Pero.
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