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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Okay.  But AGs and DAs are very different officials.
The majority of states elect their supreme courts either by direct elections, by indirect election ( ie, election by the legislature), or by retention votes (elections on whether to keep in office someone appointed by the governor). |
My father's stepfather I think was the only Court of Criminal Appeals (highest appellate court for criminal cases in Oklahoma) to ever lose a retention vote.
I prefer the retention vote model though. You're much more likely to have an independent judiciary. Here in Oklahoma, when a retention vote is lost, the judicial nomination commission (a group of well-respected lawyers appointed by the Governor) will put forward three names to the Gov. the Gov. chooses one. Same goes for District Judges (trial courts), but they also have to survive an election where someone can choose to run against them.