Reply #11: The problem is... That Ahnuld might be replacing them...

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I voted no on Ikola, as I found cases where I didn't care for how he ruled, and he was nominated by a Republican too, and thought about no on a few others. But if we default to vote "no" without looking at their record, we might throw out a relatively decent judge and have Ahnuld replace them with someone worse. We need to have our own "activist judge" watch site that keeps track of these judges and when bad decisions go down, they get recorded and therefore "remembered" for the next time we have to vote on them.

That will do two things. First it will help us weed out the bastards and keep in the good ones. And secondly, perhaps it will serve notice to judges that we WILL be watching them, and that they might want to watch how they rule if they want to have a long term future in their judicial positions.

If you don't know anything about a judge, I'd urge not voting at all, if you can't find the time to study up on them. There are some Republican nominated judges that have had courage like turning over custody of a kid to a gay man's partner who had custody of the kid before, instead of the kid's birth mother who hadn't been in the kid's life for some time.