NEWS - May 2008

Earth Protector opposes the Quie Commission
Minnesota proposal for the way judges are selected.

Implementing the Quie Commission proposal would do a disservice to the People of Minnesota by allowing us to be further victimized by the judiciary.

For over 30 years our judges and governors have been running a scam on us.

When it appears that a judge might be challenged in an election, the judge "retires" less than a year before the next election. The governor then appoints a new judge, and there is no election for that seat for another 6+ years. This is why 90% of the judges are appointed their first term, and not elected.

The Supreme Court wrote specific rules concerning judicial elections, restricting what the judicial candidates could say, not allowing the candidates to tell the people why they should be elected, and why the incumbent judge should not be elected.

The White case changed this. Now the People will know what is happening in the courts, and how and what the judges are doing. The People will finally be informed about their judges when they go to vote.

The judges in our courts should not be chosen by a group of special interest people such as lawyers and other judges. And the governor should not decide who our judges should be. The governor and the legislature are elected and not appointed and the judges should also be elected and not appointed. We want to have our right back to elect judges and we want to have complete information about each person seeking to be a judge so we can make intelligent voting decisions.

The Rep. Severson, Sen. Fischbach bills, House File 1261, and Senate File 2079 respectively, will go a long way to requiring the Minnesota legislature to comply with the Minnesota constitution. The legislature should be the one disciplining judges, NOT the judges disciplining themselves.

We want the legislature to pass House File 1261 and Senate File 2079
and get Minnesota back on the constitutional track, to the benefit of us all.
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