SCOTUS to review NY's selection of judicial candidates

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Supreme Court Will Review the Way New York Selects Judicial Candidates

By LINDA GREENHOUSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The United States Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to review New York’s method of selecting candidates to its own Supreme Courts — the 324 judges who have general trial jurisdiction throughout the state and whose nomination to 14-year terms is tightly controlled by a political process that two lower federal courts declared unconstitutional last year.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/nyregion/21court.html?_r=1&oref=slogin