Let’s keep money and politics out of the judiciary, and keep choosing Wyoming judges for merit
Don’t let shady checks, dark money or political influence spread to another branch of government. Especially not to Wyoming’s independent courts where justice for the People should never be for sale.
If you’ve had enough of “Checkgate” situations, then safeguard Wyoming’s judicial selection process to keep it merit-based and clean of what we saw this year in the Legislature.
Last session the Freedom Caucus tried to politicize the justice system (HJ 6), or have Senators handpick judges (HB 177, SJ 4). It’s a bad idea to insert political campaign funding and rich, out-of-state special interests into Wyoming’s judicial selection. That would be terrible for Wyoming’s citizens because it would mean that justice could be bought and paid for. Impartial justice is a Wyoming value we can never allow to be rigged.
Wyoming’s current process for choosing judges keeps money and politics out of it. It’s called merit selection, and it’s been part of the Wyoming Constitution since 1972. It picks candidates for their merit, ability, knowledge, and experience, and ensures that Wyoming people can have the best judges decide their cases.
Common Sense Republicans for Wyoming supports Wyoming’s independent judiciary and the merit-based selection process of judges.
For more information on how Wyoming merit selects judges see:
Listen to this Cowboy State Politics interview with former Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate Fox.
Hear the testimony of lawyers and former judges on the problems and concerns with injecting politics into the judiciary: (starts at 2:58:24).
