Current population threshold hands Democrats dominance on Pinal bench
Unless Republicans in the Arizona Legislature can pass a ballot proposal to increase the population threshold for judicial merit selection, eight Pinal County judges who are Democrats are poised to gain what seem to be lifetime appointments to the bench.
Conservatives target merit selection of judges
The impetus for the latest Republican effort to eliminate Arizona’s process of judicial merit selection has nothing to do with judicial merit selection.
Congressional delegation: AZ needs more federal judges
The five Democrats and three Republicans in Arizona’s congressional delegation displayed a rare unified front in their request to have five new federal judge positions created to combat border-related crime... […]