Nine of South Carolina’s 16 elected prosecutors are asking for changes to how the Legislature elects judges. They want legislators who are lawyers to be excluded from a committee that decides which judicial candidates go before the General Assembly for election. All six of the lawmakers on the Judicial Merit Screening Commission are attorneys.
FILE - Attorney Todd Rutherford speaks to reporters outside the South Carolina Supreme Court after a hearing April 26, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. None of South Carolina’s 16 elected prosecutors asked Monday, Oct. 23, that Rutherford, now the South Carolina House Minority Leader, to be removed from a commission that screens candidates to be judges in the state. FILE - Solicitor Kevin Brackett gestures during a press conference June 10, 2009. Brackett wrote a letter Monday, Oct.
Rutherford challenged the prosecutors, who go by the title of solicitor in South Carolina, to make a formal ethics complaint against him specifying how he improperly influenced a judge. The General Assembly elects judges after the Judicial Merit Selection Commission screens them. The commission conducts background checks, sends out questionnaires to determine temperament and judicial knowledge, and holds public hearings. If more than three candidates are qualified, the panel sends three names to the General Assembly.
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