Sandra Day O'Connor

Removing voters from the equation:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday night that she believes states should give up the practice of electing judges. "If there's a reform I would make, it would be that," Ginsburg said during a question-and-answer session of the National Association of Women Judges, which is meeting in Washington.

Retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor has made the issue her priority since leaving the Supreme Court in 2006, arguing that raising campaign funds and promising specific performance on the bench are antithetical to the practice of judging. She favors merit selection or an appointment system such as the one used to pick federal judges.

What say you?