Babcock deserves confirmation to Judicial Council

Babcock deserves confirmation to Judicial Council
Author: Charlie Pierce
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Alaskans have very little say in who the judges are in their courts. Judges in Alaska aren’t elected. They aren’t appointed like other people to powerful positions in this state. They aren’t confirmed by the lawmakers in Juneau like the people who set gas rates or run state departments. Judges in this state are effectively picked by a group called the Judicial Council.
That group, made up mostly of lawyers, including the Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, decides who the governor can choose from when there is an opening judgeship. The lawyers on the Judicial Council aren’t appointed like other people to powerful positions in Alaska. The lawyers on the Judicial council are not confirmed by the lawmakers in Juneau. Only three of the seven members of this powerful organization go before the peoples’ representatives to be placed in their seats, and they are all the nonlawyers.

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