There’s been one ― and only one ― Oklahoma governmental body that we’ve been able to count on to restore sanity and stay out of the day-to-day political brawls and power struggles playing out in the state Capitol.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court .
So I guess it was only a matter of time before a group of conservatives took a whirl at dragging our highest court into the muck with the other branches of state government.
A conservative group cloaked in shadows launched a campaign urging voters to boot three of Supreme Court justices: Noma Gurich, Yvonne Kauger and James Edmondson. The group is hoping to tilt the power on the court using our normally benign retention elections ― a section of the ballot that you’ve likely not paid much attention to before.
Retention ballot measures ask voters a simple “yes” or “no” question about whether appointed judges should continue to serve after their official appointment period ends (and at the Supreme Court level, they traditionally do).
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