We urgently need your help to change the way judges on Missouri's highest courts are selected.
Why?
Right now, Missouri's highest judges are not nominated by the Governor, legislators or any
other accountable official. Instead, they are being chosen by trial lawyers who are not
accountable to Missouri voters and who make their decisions behind closed doors. These trial
lawyers have a large financial interest in hand-picking judges who will dismantle lawsuit
reform and other hard fought accomplishments that make health care more accessible and affordable.
Small Ways to Help (That Will Deliver Big Results)
- Join our mailing list and invite friends and family to do the same.
- Get involved by writing a letter to the editor. Contact us if you would like us to help.
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Contact your elected leaders.
Specifically, please consider contacting
Rod Jetton (573-751-5912) and
Mike Gibbons (573- 751-2853),
and urge them to make judicial selection
reform a priority. Just one phone call, e-mail or fax from ten people
would make a tremendous difference.
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Spread the word. We are competing with millions of dollars from liberal trial
attorneys. We need a truly broad-based grassroots effort to get real reform on the
ballot in 2008.
What is at Risk?
Missourians deserve Supreme Court judges who refuse to legislate from the bench,
like John Roberts, Sam Alito, or Missouri's own Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., who
was recently nominated by President Bush to serve on a federal court. Once Judge
Limbaugh leaves Missouri's Supreme Court, however, we will not have the luxury of
replacing him with the same kind of strong judge unless we change the current system
for selecting judges. Why? Because Missouri's process for selecting judges has
been abused so that our state's highest judges are being hand-picked in secret by
unaccountable trial lawyers.
Missourians Will Unite Behind Reform
Not only is this an important issue, it is an issue that unites Missourians of all political
stripes. And, as the St. Louis Post and the Kansas City Star have made clear,
it is an issue of increasing importance right here in Missouri.
The judiciary is too important to leave in the control of unaccountable special interests
who stand to gain from picking judges in secret. Please join us as we fight to protect the
rule of law.
Sincerely,
Better Courts for Missouri