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Dear Secretary Carnahan:
This office received your letter of March 21, 2008, submitting a proposed summary statement prepared under Section
116.334 , RSMo, for the petition submitted by Jonathan Bunch on March 7, 2008. The proposed summary statement is as follows:Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to repeal certain provisions relating to the nonpartisan selection of judges by:
• removing all current members of the nonpartisan judicial selection commissions and giving sole authority to the Governor to appoint new members subject to Senate consent;
• increasing the number of judicial nominees submitted by the commissions from three to five and allowing the Governor to veto the first list of nominees;
• transferring from the Missouri Supreme Court to the Governor's appointed commissions the authority to establish rules governing commission actions; and
• making certain information regarding judicial nominees and the selection process publicly available?
Pursuant to Section
116.334 , we approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement. Because our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no action that we *Page 2 take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition, nor as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.Very truly yours,
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Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon
Attorney General
Document Info
Judges: JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON, Attorney General
Filed Date: 3/28/2008
Precedential Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016