Portal:Judicial selection in the states

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The Judicial Selection Portal is a space on Judgepedia about:

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This portal hopes to serve as a guidepost for improving information about how judges are selected while providing information on various methods.


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Judicial selection commissions play different roles across the nation. They are most common in states that use a commission-selection, political appointment method of judicial selection. However, in some states with judicial elections, a nominating commission helps vet candidates for gubernatorial appointment to vacancies on the courts.


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The Judgepedia:WikiProject Judicial Selection is where editors and contributors coordinate to work on articles in this portal. There you can access the process our staff uses to gather information judicial selection, help pages specific to the project, and current checklists that show where we are in the process.

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