Initiative seeks to protect idea of 'nonpartisan' courts

Initiative seeks to protect idea of 'nonpartisan' courts

Voters have an opportunity this fall to endorse an old idea: to keep judicial elections nonpartisan as they have been for almost a hundred years. "The public likes having nonpartisan elections and especially in the judiciary when we want sort of these neutral arbiters of justice," said Jessi Bennion, a political scientist from Montana State University. But the fight over Constitutional...