{"id":30521,"date":"2017-03-14T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/former-judge-alaska-should-keep-politics-out-of-judicial-selection-process\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T02:32:05","slug":"former-judge-alaska-should-keep-politics-out-of-judicial-selection-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/former-judge-alaska-should-keep-politics-out-of-judicial-selection-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Former judge: Alaska should keep politics out of judicial selection process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Alaska judge Elaine Andrews believes the state has one of the best processes for selecting judges in the country &mdash; and she&rsquo;d like to keep it that way.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is among the most transparent in the nation,&rdquo; Andrews said during the March 1 meeting of the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce at the ER Ale House. &ldquo;It is an amazing thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rather than having elected judges, Alaska&rsquo;s system relies on a &ldquo;merit based&rdquo; system, Andrews explained. She explained that the authors of the Alaska Constitution didn&rsquo;t want the judicial selection process to be overly political, so they installed a system in which the Alaska Judicial Council reviews and selects potential judges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskastar.com\/2017-03-13\/former-judge-says-alaska-should-keep-politics-out-judicial-selection-process#.WMgydDsrKUm\" target=\"_blank\">Read this Alaska Star story<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Contact Alaska Star editor Matt Tunseth at editor@alaskastar.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Alaska judge Elaine Andrews believes the state has one of the best processes for selecting judges in the country &mdash; and she&rsquo;d like to keep it that way. &ldquo;It is among the most transparent in the nation,&rdquo; Andrews said during the March 1 meeting of the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce at the ER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30521"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}