Don’t care about the municipal and district court elections? You’re not alone. Relatively few people vote in these down-ballot races, and even fewer do so with knowledge of who they’re voting for or what the judicial candidates stand for.
Someday you might care, though. Unless you’re a professional criminal, if you ever end up in court odds are it’ll be of the municipal or district variety. Perhaps you’ll be contesting an illegitimate parking ticket. Perhaps it’ll be something more serious and potentially life altering. Whatever it is, your day before a judge won’t be something you planned, you won’t want to be there, and you’ll sure as hell hope the person in the black robe listens to your side of things and makes a fair decision.
Which is all a political action committee called “Citizens for Judicial Excellence” says it wants—solid judges who follow the law and are respectful and fair…