Judicial candidates cannot even anonymously participate in a phone bank, though they can publicly buy tickets to, and attend, political party functions.

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This baroque dichotomy between their sublime aspirations of judicial excellence and the ridiculous rules to which they have to conform while they pirouette to the demands of politicians and titans of the bar must bend the minds of the best and idealistic judicial candidates like a pretzel. We are destroying the very institution we are trying to save.

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