{"id":113658,"date":"2025-04-05T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/05\/stats-of-the-week-judicial-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:43:44","slug":"stats-of-the-week-judicial-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/05\/stats-of-the-week-judicial-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Judicial Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, in the most expensive judicial race on record, Susan Crawford defeated the Trump-endorsed candidate<\/a>, Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, preserving the court\u2019s liberal majority \u2014 despite (because of?) the personal campaigning and massive influx of money by Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That got us wondering how common it is for voters to decide who gets to sit on their state\u2019s highest court. It turns out that a lot of states use some kind of judicial election.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin is one of 21 states that hold popular elections for the state supreme court. Eleven other states elect judges only to trial or intermediate appellate courts.<\/p>\n

In 16 states where supreme court judges are selected for initial terms through other methods \u2014 e.g., legislative election, gubernatorial appointment, and assisted appointment (a nominating committee submits a list of names to the governor) \u2014 those judges are subject to retention elections. In this case, voters don\u2019t choose among multiple candidates; they decide only whether or not the incumbent judge should be elected to another term.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

To find out which states select judges by popular vote, check out the interactive map<\/a> on the Brennan Center for Justice\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Judicial Selection: An Interactive Map<\/a> [Brennan Center for Justice]<\/p>\n

The post Stat(s) Of The Week: Judicial Elections<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, in the most expensive judicial race on record, Susan Crawford defeated the Trump-endorsed candidate<\/a>, Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, preserving the court\u2019s liberal majority \u2014 despite (because of?) the personal campaigning and massive influx of money by Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That got us wondering how common it is for voters to decide who gets to sit on their state\u2019s highest court. It turns out that a lot of states use some kind of judicial election.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin is one of 21 states that hold popular elections for the state supreme court. Eleven other states elect judges only to trial or intermediate appellate courts.<\/p>\n

In 16 states where supreme court judges are selected for initial terms through other methods \u2014 e.g., legislative election, gubernatorial appointment, and assisted appointment (a nominating committee submits a list of names to the governor) \u2014 those judges are subject to retention elections. In this case, voters don\u2019t choose among multiple candidates; they decide only whether or not the incumbent judge should be elected to another term.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

To find out which states select judges by popular vote, check out the interactive map<\/a> on the Brennan Center for Justice\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Judicial Selection: An Interactive Map<\/a> [Brennan Center for Justice]<\/p>\n

The post Stat(s) Of The Week: Judicial Elections<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, in the most expensive judicial race on record, Susan Crawford defeated the Trump-endorsed candidate, Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, preserving the court\u2019s liberal majority \u2014 despite (because of?) the personal campaigning and massive influx of money by Elon Musk. That got us wondering how common it is for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stat-of-the-week-image-Kyf6C2.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}