Scott among those ready to challenge judicial selection system

Count Sen. Delbert Scott, R-Lowry City, among those ready to lead the charge against Missouri's judicial selection system during the 2008 legislative session, according to Steve Kraske's article in the Kansas City Star:

Conservative Republican lawmakers predict they will have the votes next year to modify, or completely revamp, Missouri’s nonpartisan court plan, which has changed little since its 1940 adoption.

Their confidence is fueled by the latest panel of three judges sent to Gov. Matt Blunt for a vacant state Supreme Court seat. No member of that panel, some conservatives contend, comports with Blunt’s conservative judicial philosophy.

It’s an “up your nose, in your face” slate, charged Sen. Delbert Scott, a Lowry City Republican.

“Game on,” said Rep. Jim Lembke, a St. Louis Republican who has pushed court plan changes before.

Scott and others have a beef with the process used to pick finalists, calling it secretive and dominated by legal interests.