Keep Judicial Retention in Our Hands

It’s my understanding that we have Utah legislators currently working on legislation that would fundamentally change the process by which judges in Utah are retained. I’ve heard that the proposed bill would give the power to decide judicial retention to the Legislature, stripping it from the people of Utah who currently possess that right and authority through retention elections. Please do everything in your power to ensure that this legislation is unsuccessful. Setting aside the huge separation-of-powers concerns such a bill would create, Utahns deserve to keep the retention authority they currently possess. More than that, Utah’s process of nominating, approving, and retaining judges is perhaps the best system that exists in this country. This process should be protected and any attempts to fundamentally alter it should be rejected. Please vote no in the event this legislation makes it to a vote. But before that happens, please work for us and get the legislation killed before it can get out of committee. Our judiciary is by and large efficient, intelligent, qualified, and appropriately nonpartisan. Utah deserve to have this remain the case.