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All judicial officials such as judges, attorney generals (attorneys general), clerks of court are to be appointed by the executive and/or legislative branches, to be hired/nominated by or promoted from within the judicial system or to be selected by an associated body of law enforcement as opposed to being popularly elected. This is because there needs to be at least one branch of government wholly clear of the sways of populist election when it comes to entry into office. Basic observation indicates that court races are not as generally well-known or understood by the electorate especially the so-called non-partisan court races where the court candidates are not allowed to express any party affiliation. This just adds to the confusion and workload upon voters when they try to gauge the candidates' stances and judicial philosophies on top of discerning the non-judicial races. With these unknowns occurring in popular court races, it's possible voters will end up nullifying or contradicting their intended direction of the government. All in all it is safer and more accountable to the system to let the voters' legislative and/or executive officeholders make judicial appointments or to allow hiring/nominating by or promotions from within the judicial branch or to have selections made by relevant law enforcement bodies as first mentioned in the opening statement. Though judicial officials would not be popularly voted into office, we do provide a direct method to the populace to invoke removal of a particular judicial official at the more local or intermediate level when such official exhibits a series and degree of poor, abusive, callous or overly permissive rulings or actions. A petition for removal or towards a referendum for the same will invoke upon appropriate thresholds. Mid to upper-level judicial officials at state or national office are subject to removal by sufficient concurrrence of county/municipal or state legislative branches respectively. As well appointments can be rescinded by the originating appointing bodies under particular circumstances not to mention impeachment for the more criminal offenses. Some of these procedures may already be in effect within certain governments and jurisdictions. |