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Bob Numbers Writes Op-Ed on N.C. Judicial Appointment Proposal

September 9, 2011

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RALEIGH, N.C.—Womble Carlyle attorney Bob Numbers has penned an op-ed piece on a North Carolina judicial appointment proposal for the current issue of Carolina Journal.
 
The North Carolina Senate is considering a bill that would no longer allow voters to select the state’s judges. Instead, judges (other than District Court judges) would be selected by a panel of political appointees and the Governor. Numbers argues that the plan would take power away from citizens and put it in the hands of special interests.

“Under the proposed system, debates over the merits of potential judges would be moved from the public square to private clubs,” Numbers writes.
Bob Numbers is a business litigation attorney in Womble Carlyle’s Raleigh office and a member of the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.