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Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected

By Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica · October 15, 2026

Some 86 years ago, Missouri voters enshrined a system for selecting top judges that would remove political influence from the courts. And almost immediately, it came under attack. Under what has come to be known as the Missouri Plan, lawyers help choose a slate of three candidates from which the governor must make an…

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Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected

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