| The Detroit News favors the current judicial selective system except when it produces Democratic-backed judges. The surprise resignation of Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Weaver and the simultaneous appointment of Alton Davis by Gov. Jennifer Granholm is the result of cynical maneuvering by the justice and governor.
The editorial itself is hardly notable except when viewed through the prism of the sum-total reaction from the Right since Weaver last week essentially declared that her seat isn't their real estate to dispose of as they please. At least the News didn't call for an investigation. What is notanble is that their preferred course of action to deal with it is to essentially do nothing. Perhaps in the end, this is a tacit admission that despite the years of bitter in-fighting on the state's high court, which has turned the thing into a national joke, that Betty Weaver found a way to go out in a style they are forced to admire. Just as conservatives are recycling some of the same old tactics to delegitimize a Democratic president, and just as they continue to press the same tired and discredited talking points on most issues, they hope to get a chance for their own bit of the Weaver treatment after Rick Michigan presumably marches triumphantly to Lansing in November. |
