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Analysis: Missouri Lawmakers May Target Judiciary
Associated Press/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
1/15/2012
Judges' Secrecy in Redistricting Rouses Critics
Columbia Daily Tribune
12/12/2011
Judges Don't Plan Public Meeting for Redistricting
Associated Press
11/28/2011
State Apportionment Panel Avoids Sunshine Law Requirements
Columbia Daily Tribune
11/27/2011
Missouri Bar President Disregards the Facts
National Review Online
Editorial
9/23/2011
Missouri Compromised
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
9/15/2011
Missouri: Trial Lawyer Heaven
National Review Online
Editorial
9/7/2011
Why We Should Keep Judicial Elections
Washington Post
Editorial
5/26/2011
What's Right About Kansas - Breaking the Legal Guild's Control Over Judicial Selection
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
3/4/2011
Loser Pays, Everyone Wins - Texas Pushes the British Rule on Tort Reform
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
12/15/2010
A Less 'Politicized' Judiciary? Hardly
National Review Online
Editorial
8/30/2010
Kagan and Roberts: Similar Paths, Poles Apart
The Wall Street Journal
8/6/2010
Top "Wacky Warning Labels" for 2010 Announced
Foundation for Fair Civil Justice
7/12/2010
John Stossel on The Faces of Lawsuit Abuse
Fox Business Channel
7/9/2010
Why Liberals are Lawyers' Puppets
The Washington Post
Editorial
2/16/2010
Effort to Repeal Tort Reform Dangerous - An Op-Ed by James Harris, Executive Director of Better Courts for Missouri
Springfield News-Leader
Editorial
1/1/2010
Show Me Tort Reform: The Missouri Experience, by John C. Hagan, III, M.D.; John F. Doane, M.D.; and Jim Denning
Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today
1/1/2010
Why Medical Malpractice is Off Limits
The Wall Street Journal
Editorial
9/29/2009
How Missouri Cut Junk Lawsuits - An Editorial by Former Gov. Matt Blunt
The Wall Street Journal
Editorial
9/22/2009
Fraud by Trial Lawyers Taints Wave of Pesticide Lawsuits
The Wall Street Journal
8/19/2009
The Judges, the Lawyers, and the People
Common Sense with Paul Jacob
Editorial
7/28/2009
Judicial Selection Process Needs Reform
Southeast Missourian
Editorial
5/1/2009
Watchdog Group Accuses Missouri Supreme Court of Violating Sunshine Law
Columbia Missourian
4/22/2009
Missouri Plan is No Way to Judge
Columbia Daily Tribune
Editorial
4/21/2009
Missouri Brakes - The Sue Me State Reconsiders Judicial Selection
The Wall Street Journal
Editorial
4/18/2009
Amendment Would Alter Missouri Plan
Springfield News-Leader
4/9/2009
Missouri House Passes Changes to Judge Selections
KWMU 90.7
4/8/2009
Harris Calls on Court to Halt Lobbying on Proposed Judicial Changes
KY3 Political Notebook
4/8/2009
Guest Columnist, James Harris: Reform Missouri Plan
The Joplin Globe
Editorial
3/13/2009
Missouri Plan Has Turned Too Secretive
Columbia Daily Tribune
Editorial
3/11/2009
Missouri Plan Needs a Major Overhaul
The Maneater
Editorial
3/2/2009
O'Connor Offers Suggestions for Missouri Plan
The Maneater
3/2/2009
Supreme Court Justice Defends Missouri Plan (Associated Press)
Springfield News-Leader
2/28/2009
The Road to Injustice
Southeast Missourian
Editorial
9/19/2008
Without Judicial Merit
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
8/23/2008
Show Me the Judges
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
8/30/2007
Behind Closed Doors - How Missouri Makes Judges
Townhall.com
Editorial
8/19/2007
The Missouri Plan in the Spotlight
Sam Adams Aliance
Editorial
8/16/2007

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"I predict you will have no great groundswell from [the legal] profession to aid you in correcting the problem."

- Warren D. Welliver, Missouri Supreme Court Judge, 10/28/1985

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