Post Dispatch advocates the preservation of smoky, behind closed door MATA meetings to choose our judges.  ”Always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers…always be drastically independent.” – Taken from the STL Post Dispatch’s platform   The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch had another one of [...]

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Now that there is an effort underway to replace the Missouri Plan with the federal model for choosing judges, will we see a resurrection of this group? Related: EXCLUSIVE: Why Is Judge Patricia Cohen Seeking to Delay Announcement of Court Vacancy? CCP Blogger Sends Fundraising Appeal to Sitting Judges’ Official Email Accounts

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Here we go again, more pay to play! Better Courts for Missouri press release: Jefferson City, Missouri – Governor Jay Nixon has appointed Karen King Mitchell, a longtime Nixon loyalist, to the Missouri Court of Appeals. Mitchell’s appointment came as a result of the supposedly non-partisan judicial selection process known as the “Missouri Plan”. “Once [...]

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Isn’t it ironic that the king of the sunshine request, Tony “Baghdad” Messenger, is conspicuously silent on the numerous sunshine requests that are simply being ignored right now by the Democrats? In a letter delivered today, Better Courts for Missouri called on the Missouri Supreme Court and Mr. Thomas F. Simon, Esq., Chief Clerk and [...]

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Yesterday, Better Courts for Missouri filed a Sunshine Law request under Missouri’s open records statutes to receive information regarding the judiciary’s “partisan activities” concerning court reform. “Our efforts to add transparency to the Missouri Plan should be debated by our legislators and by the people of the State of Missouri,” said James Harris, Executive Director [...]

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House Joint Resolution 10 (HJR 10), a measure that would allow Missourians the opportunity to decide whether they want more transparency in the state’s judicial selection system, was passed out of the Missouri House of Representatives Special Standing Committee on General Laws today with a bipartisan vote. HJR 10 is similar to Senate Joint Resolution [...]

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