retention elections twenty states had retention elections and it is time to put Kate shack to

judicial retention elections I have to ask you that wouldn't that make the Supreme Court justices more

know we look at the practices about hal retention elections that operated across the country in the Indian twenty state where that happened the

finally not call for a constitutional amendment subject Supreme Court justices your periodic retention elections twenty

I can tell you that twenty states have put in place judicial retention elections and they have worked out of the people have use them sparingly but

a cream court justices subject to periodic judicial retention elections twenty states across the union do that and if the Supreme Court justices are

adopted retention elections for judges when they face state charges that we're doing with the Supreme Court is doing disobeying

what's interesting you know I I wrote a long op ed in National Review laying out the twenty states have adopted retention elections now they're rarely used but

are four judges in states where judges are elected right in some instances they're elected another mentioned senator appointed and

the party of Washington you know you rightly mentioned that we had an election in November was an historic election we won massive

elected Barack Obama create a court that you like better than the one we have now well let's let's be clear what I'm talking about our judicial retention elections which means you have the same appointment the same Senate confirmation but

you win the election

happy to start with twenty sixty I'm sure she'll have her own hypothetical but I appreciate that one let me ask you in terms of this retention election idea would

retention elections which sounds like injecting politics into the one branch of government the framers were very clear about they did not want

I was elected lieutenant governor I was only the fourth Republican elected and a hundred and fifty years when I was elected lieutenant governor I gotta say capital and

in the twenty fourteen election well you know a funny thing happened on the way to the election nnj now I guarantee you if