"Convention system harms democracy"

James Sample and Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. have written this oped in the Albany Times Union. It begins: "New York's Constitution requires that the voters -- not unelected political party leaders -- select the state's principal trial court judges. In spite of that, for more than 80 years, party leaders have employed a complex convention scheme to select major party nominees and rob voters of a real choice for Supreme Court justices on Election Day."

Posted by Rick Hasen at December 26, 2006 06:43 AM