In prior posts I wrote about how judicial elections and the vast sums of money injected into them by those who have cases pending before state courts can create a perception of a judiciary for sale that undermines public confidence in it.
Adam Liptak writes in the NY Times about how the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case concerning whether Brent D. Benjamin, a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, should have recused himself from a case in which the CEO of one of the parties, Massey Energy, had given $3 million to his campaign to unseat an incumbent justice.
The Supremes have already refused to change New York’s system of electing judges which has been plagued by patronage and cronyism. Hopefully, in the Massey Energy case, it will at least put a curb on the product of judicial elections that appear to be more political in nature than merit-based.
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