Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected

The courts blocked their gerrymander. So Missouri GOPers want to rig the courts

The push to change the current system, known as the Missouri plan, began soon after the Missouri Supreme Court’s final ruling against the gerrymander.

Missouri GOP Attacks Judge Selection Process

“For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned,” ProPublica reports.

Missouri Republicans frustrated by court losses seek to change how top judges selected

Some 86 years ago, Missouri voters enshrined a system for selecting top judges that would remove political influence from the courts. And almost immediately, it came under attack.Under what has come to be known as the Missouri Plan, lawyers help choose a slate of three candidates from which the governor must make an appointment for the state Supreme Court, appeals courts and, in some populous areas, the circuit courts. In the first years after a…

Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected

For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned.

Missouri Republicans Face Backlash Over Push to Change 86-Year-Old System for Selecting Top Judges: ‘They Think They Can Do Whatever They Want’

The Republican Party of Missouri is criticized online for revealing intent to select top judges in the state.