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Alabama

FBaggins

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1. Not sure that's winnable at the state supreme court level

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Aug 8, 2019, 09:46 AM

Aug 2019

Supreme Court justices do not "represent" geographic regions of a state... so their election has to be statewide.

I suppose they could remove the party designation from the ballots entirely and run nonpartisan court elections (as many states do).

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Not sure that's winnable at the state supreme court level FBaggins Aug 2019 #1