Column: Consequences mean judicial races aren’t always a bore – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "Why is politics, at least theoretically, verboten in judicial elections? Because judges are required to make decisions free of bias or the appearance thereof by applying facts to law. That approach works almost all the time, and people should be grateful it does. But it’s not 100 percent. That’s why four judicial candidates — three of them sitting judges — are locked in two vitriolic, expensive campaigns."