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Pollster calls evaluation survey of judges ‘dangerous’
Nineteen judges who are up for retention this year went before the Commission on Judicial Performance Review on June 15 to explain themselves for bad marks they got in surveys on their performance.
Mohave County court asking for 7th division
KINGMAN a�� The Mohave County Superior Court is seeking a seventh division and is asking the board of supervisors to petition Gov. Jan Brewer to expand the Superior Court in northwest Arizona.
A year into emergency, Arizona federal courts still face ‘dire’ situation
WASHINGTON – Federal courts in Arizona are still in “dire circumstances” as an emergency declaration that was supposed to help judges keep pace with a crushing caseload is set to expire. The judicial emergency declared last year in the wake of the shooting death of Chief Judge John Roll runs out Monday, but officials say the U.S. District Court for the state still faces many of the same c[...]
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... […]
