Partisan

constitutional amendment to elect non-partisan judges to both the Supreme and Appellate Courts. This system allows justices and judges to stand unopposed for a retention vote in the general election. An approval vote starts a new ten-year term for the incumbent judge or justice. A rejection makes the office vacant for appointment. Judges in the lower levels are still chosen by election. With a few exceptions, most candidates for the trial courts compete in partisan primary elections. The…

have one of the basic patterns of selecting judges. There are partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, appointments, and appointments with retention election. Partisan elections, like the system we have in Texas currently works by each candidate having to run under a party affiliation. In a partisan election candidates first run in a primary election and it also incorporates straight-party voting. The good thing about partisan elections is that they allow people of that state some control…

David Brooks begins his satirical op-editorial “Fly the Partisan Skies” by classifying two different political parties; liberalism and conservative into two imaginative airlines; Liberal Air and Right wing express as a analogy. Throughout his editorial he utilizes a mocking tone and exaggerates the partisans stereotypes in order to ridicule their beliefs, and silliness. He mentions that in a Liberal Air flight it “will take off 45 minutes late, or whenever people feel like leaving” mocking the…

biases present. A form of entertainment known as the late night talk show will often go into political topics for the viewers entertainment. Late night talk shows supposedly provide a great alternative to traditional news media outlets however their partisan bias typically misinform viewers instead of serving a function of convincing/propaganda. Late night talk show hosts often deliberately manipulate their talking points in order to perpetuate a narrative that suites them. In some of the…

discuss the “pros and cons” of the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan. (Please include the advantages and/or disadvantages of partisan judicial elections and whether, in your opinion, is a better system for choosing state judges. When talking about a state judge selection, the best way to elect a judge is by the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan. But there are many pros and cons to each side of this choice! The main pro to the Missouri Non-partisan Court Plan is there will be no bias between…

In his book, How Partisan Media Polarize America, Matthew Levendusky formulates the argument that the American political culture is affected and moved to extremes by the influence of partisan media. Levendusky first constructs a clear outline of the content of his book, then introduces a series of hypotheses that illustrate the core of the effects of partisan media, then follows with an extensive elaboration of the acquirement of empirical data to support his claim, and finally concludes by…

"Zora Neale Hurston : A cautionary Tale and a partisan View " written by Alice Walker an American novelist is an article about Zora N Hurston . Zora was also an African American novelist in the 1900's. Zora inspired Alice to write and publish articles , shorts stories and novels which is why she planted a grave marker on her grave . Alice also wrote what we are familiar with , "The color Purple". Zora was big on independence financially , friendships and Zora had a great strive for things…

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…

than the Senate, because of the number of members. The Senate is more relax and it is harder to control. The reason it is harder to control the Senate is because the Senate is as partisan as the House and is not hierarchical. The House members are more partisan than Senate members. One reason the House is more partisan is because not everyone is about to talk. There are over four hundred members in the House of Representatives and it would take a very long time to get these done if everyone…

cable news, listen to talk radio, follow social-media debates, or eavesdrop a conversation at a coffee shop - anyone in the Unites States has seen the partisan polarization developing throughout political culture. But what causes the extreme polarization so evident in today’s society? One of the primary causes of polarization is partisan activists. Partisan activists are the individuals who knock on doors to distribute political pamphlets, make phone calls to ask for monetary support, host…