Alaska
Jim Minnery: Politics is weird, but Alaska gender politics is a whole new level of weird | #alaska | #politics
By JIM MINNERY | ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL Republicans are good at getting elected to majorities in the State House and Senate. As far as organizing around common goals and strategies? Not so much. It seems like there are always a few Republicans (you know who you are) who give Democrats in the minority power and […]
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Alaska
Alaska is one of 26 states that picks judges through a council. Here’s why some voters want a change | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- October 26, 2022
- 2022 alaska general election
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The Alaska Constitutional Convention’s Committee on the Judiciary Meets in Constitution Hall. (Photo courtesy the Alaska Bar Association Archives.) When the framers of Alaska’s constitution were debating how the state should pick its judges, the goal was to remove politics from the process as much as possible. In territorial days, judges were political appointees named […]
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