Measure 40

The Cascade Policy Institute makes the best argument in favor of Measure 40.

Fourteen of the seventeen current members of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals made it into office, not by being elected, but by being placed there by Democrat governors. Throw in the fact that almost all were chosen from the narrow pool of lawyers in the Portland-Salem-Eugene corridor; add that, as a practical matter, a judge can never be voted out of office; and any ruling on a politically charged topic is automatically suspect, at least to the hundreds of thousands of Oregonians who feel they are not represented on the courts. Despite initial appearances, though, this is not a partisan issue. It is a consequence of the way we select judges and hold them accountable to the public....

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