Compare And Contrast The Techniques Of Judicial Selection

Techniques for judicial selection vary across the United States. Each state has a set of guidelines and rules overseeing how they fill their state and neighborhood judiciaries. During the judicial selections there are several debates, decisions and questions that have to be made and answered. “There are three methods that are used in selecting judges in the United States: 1) appointment by the executive or legislative branch of government, 2) elections which are partisan or non-partisan, and 3) a merit selection” (D.Neubauer & S. Meinhold). At least one of these methods is used in each state to select a trail judge and another for an appellate court judge. For several years there has been a struggle to balance independence and accountability in the judicial selection. “Judges are important policy makers and are selected or retained through popular elections, …show more content…
Voters can simply go to the democrat, republican or independent section and decide on which party they are for, besides trying to narrow down a big list of candidates based on basis personal qualifications. Another preferred standpoint of having a partisan election would need to be the free press and name acknowledgment. This is really important in an election especially for name recognition, because candidates want voters to recognize their name on the ballot when it comes to election time. If voters are unaware of whom a candidate may be and what they represent voters will not vote in favor of that candidate. Within the partisan election voters are able to recognize candidates who they know of that have accomplished many different things while in politics, which helps the candidate out with a high probability of getting