Liberal Indiana Judges Voted to be Retained

[Restroyer]

I don't know about everyone else but I was very disappointed that in this election that Indiana State liberal Judges were retained. Indiana Judges Melissa May, Margaret Robb, and Lloyd Mark Bailey all got around 78% votes for "Yes, retain this Judge". I don't see how Indiana voted so Republican but yet voted at 78% to retain these three Liberal Judges. I don't think Hoosiers educated themselves on what kind of Judges they were retaining. These are Liberal Judges that I personally voted "No, they shall not be retained". We could have replaced these three judges by voting not to retain them and then they could have been replaced with a more conservative Judge (like Judges Goff & Brown who were also retained). These 3 liberal judges get very long terms now to keep wrecking more liberal havoc. I think many Hoosiers just voted yes to retain all these judges when in fact they were voting to keep Liberal Judges. Makes no sense to me.

 

[MCgrease08]

This should not surprise you. There was a thread on this topic prior to the election and it got fewer than 20 comments.

Indiana moved to this system of voting to retain judges back in the '70s. Since that time no judge has ever lost their gig because of a "no" vote on the question of whether to retain.

 

[blue2golf]

Don't blame me. I always vote to throw all of them out.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I always vote "no" when this comes up on the ballot, regardless of who it is.

 

[cobber]

Don't blame me. I always vote to throw all of them out.

Me too.

 

[churchmouse]

We (CKW & I) always vote no.

It is the lazy lever pullers I would assume.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

We (CKW & I) always vote no.

It is the lazy lever pullers I would assume.

Doesn't have anything to do with that. I voted the straight "R" ticket (but revised it to switch to Rainwater for Governor), but that doesn't cover the judges, since they are "allegedly" a non-partisan position.

 

[indyjohn]

I didn't make a choice either way on any of them because I was not educated on any of them. I need my party resources to put that information in front of me before the question is posed. Every election cycle the NRA (bless their hearts) sends me a crib sheet of which candidates are, and are not, pro 2A.

Why can't the party I affiliate with give me that kind information? What's that you say? Judges are held to be non-partisan in their decisions?? Pfffft.

 

[Ark]

78% of how many? Pretty sure so few people vote on those questions that any judge in the state can buy/organize a couple hundred votes and be completely secure. There is no easy way to determine a given judge's ideology except to manually dig through their cases.

It's a garbage system. At least there's a voter contingency if a judge behaves egregiously enough, but in the real world it pretty much guarantees perpetual careers.

 

[SarahG]

As I posted in the other thread about this, I wasn't informed about the judges and thus didn't vote either way. Looking at judges is not something I think of when preparing to vote.

 

[alabasterjar]

I always vote no on judges. I wouldn't expect a judge to get voted out unless their judgements/ behavior was crazy bad. There is value to having a breadth of judicial opinion on the court. I think this system is still superior than appointment with life term. At least the voters still have a say.

 

[OurDee]

I got to that section ignorant of it being there. I did not vote yes or no. I know that in years passed I used to vote no for them. I am going to return to that practice with the exception of asking in here for thought before next time.

 

[joncon]

I've always voted no on retaining judges.

 

[indyartisan]

I've always voted no on retaining judges.

I will admit I have too. I usually don’t know enough about them and I try to spread the wealth around.
I know, bad citizen.
Sometimes life gets in the way.
I am working on improving my civic responsibility

 

[KellyinAvon]

Vote da bums out!!

 

[foszoe]

Always voting no could vote out a 2A friend

 

[indyartisan]

So true Foszoe, I promise to do better.

 

[GIJEW]

I've tried looking into past rulings by judges who are on the ballot and found it overwhelming, trying to figure out where they stand. TMI to sort out, to find decisions that would matter to me.
Since this is IN not NY NJ etc, and it's less likely that they're leftists, I just leave those boxes blank.

It would be good if NRA, GOA, ISRPA, would put out info about them

 

[alabasterjar]

Always voting no could vote out a 2A friend

May vote out an anti-2A enemy. If MCGrease is correct, no one has been voted out since the 70s... I'm comfortable with a consistent "no" vote.

 

[9mmfan]

I vote 'NO' on this question every time I see it. Those fools need to find a real job.