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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (42001)	1/4/2002 4:32:14 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

George Will (back to story) January 2, 2002 Judicial speech codes WASHINGTON--Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice, who was in Wonderland, although she could have been in Minnesota. The misguided Supreme Court of that state will soon answer to the U.S. Supreme Court, trying to defend the indefensible--provisions in the state's Code of Judicial Conduct, promulgated by the state court, that push campaign regulation, meaning the official supervision of political speech, to new levels of offensiveness. Like a sizable majority of states, Minnesota elects judges, which is a bad idea, but historically understandable. The state constitution mandating this was adopted on the eve of the Civil War, when abolitionist feelings were running high and so was resentment of the judicial highhandedness that produced the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Be that as it may, Minnesota says there shall be judicial elections, but that candidates for judicial office are forbidden to say anything pertinent--and, by the way, so are candidates' family members. Really... townhall.com