THIS would be great, if it can pass.

[LizW]

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/117731635477830.xml&coll=2">ABA judge election bill to be introduced (Alabama)

Bills by Alabama's chief justice to switch to nonpartisan judicial elections and fill court vacancies through appointment will get competition this week.

A bill endorsed by the Alabama Bar Association to appoint appeals-court judges will be introduced Tuesday, said Gorman Houston, a retired Alabama Supreme Court justice who heads a bar committee on the changes.

Both sets of proposals are part of an effort to reduce the cash, partisan bickering and attack ads in court races.

[nealmhughes]

1. Lord God, yes! May it come to pass!

Then we can reinstate the 1818 Constitution with all the racist and sexist language removed, add homerule for the cities and counties set the terms to 4 years (it was 2 in 1818 and until 1901), reinstate the mandatory education right section of the old constitution and try to get the ALFA crowd have collective coronaries by taxing their corporate farms and land waiting for clear cutting -- je m'ajuste -- "lumber management." Take the sales tax off of food and increasing the size of the legislature in both houses might be good, too. Too few with too much flowing thru Monkeygomery for my taste.
Next thought: please make the Tennessee River the northern border of the state: maybe Tennessee would take us. We'll see if the rest of the state realizes how much flows to Montgomery and how little towards the North. It is as if there were a barrier at Lacon Mountain, it seems.