State Gets More Time for Judicial Election Change
Trial judges in New York will be picked by political convention one last time this fall after a federal judge delayed a ruling striking down the system, saying the state needed more time to develop a new one.
Judge John Gleeson had ruled in late January that the state’s unique practice of using political conventions, not primaries, to decide who would make the ballot for spots on the trial-level Supreme Court gave too much power to political-party bosses.
Critics say the conventions are patronage-driven affairs in which the allies of party leaders are rewarded with judgeships and all others are shut out.
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