Yet it remains preferable to the alternative used in most states: judicial elections.

The screening panels have limited the role of politics in judicial elections.

It was not clear from the judge's ruling how many judicial elections could be affected.

This was the last year in which statewide judicial elections were partisan.

Remember, today is the big judicial election for the seat on the Wisconsin supreme court.

But only recently have Federal courts concluded that judicial elections should be subject to the same provisions.

They are $3,000 from individuals and $5,500 from organizations for each judicial election.

The most radical calls for public financing of judicial elections.

Already that right is jeopardized by the increasing role of money in judicial elections.

Voters chose to retain him on the court in the 1977 and 1987 judicial elections.