{"id":4940,"date":"2015-04-10T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2015-04-10T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:04:03","slug":"illinois-appointed-judges-better-jurists-elected-jurists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appointed-judges-better-jurists-elected-jurists\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Illinois Appointed Judges Better Jurists than Elected Jurists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is perhaps a custom that grew out of an era nearly 200 years ago that elected judges would be better suited to carry out the law and protect the integrity of the United States court systems. The reason many states adopted the laws that would allow the election of judges was because so long ago, perhaps in the 1820s, judges were appointed by those in power and influence and thus judges were likewise influenced by those who appointed them. It was thought that the election of judges by the area\u2019s residents would place the best qualified judges on the bench and thus render fair and reasoned opinions absent the influence of the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>A 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.uchicago.edu\/\">University of Chicago Law School<\/a> study found that appointed judges write fewer opinions than elected judges. However, the written opinions by appointed judges tend to be of a higher quality. \u201cA simple explanation for our results,\u201d wrote Stephen Choi, J. Mitu Gulati and Eric Posner, \u201cis that electoral judgeships attract and reward politically savvy people, while appointed judgeships attract more professionally able people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The election of judges occurs in 39 U.S. states, including Illinois. Simply put, judges can earn a spot on the bench by winning an election &#8212; often, one that is partisan. In fact in some states, the elected judges do not need to be lawyers. This is unheard of throughout most of the civilized world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appointed-judges-better-jurists-elected-jurists\/#more-4940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is perhaps a custom that grew out of an era nearly 200 years ago that elected judges would be better suited to carry out the law and protect the integrity of the United States court systems. 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