It's not uncommon for people to find they wasted their time and money going to law school in this way It is uncommon for them to decide to make good on this investment years later by cynically gaming the system of judicial elections in the nastiest possible way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
By finding a judge whose seat was up for election with no other challengers, who happened to have a difficult to spell Czech name, and then filing to run against her and spamming her district with flyers and lawn signs saying "VOTE LYNN OLSON"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Anyway she won by a landslide, the whole legal community was incensed, and it became a whole big news story in 2006 Gov. Schwarzenegger immediately appointed Janavs back onto the bench via the next open seat But, constitutionally, there was nothing they could do about Olson
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
She remains an LA Superior Court Judge to this day, having narrowly won reelection in 2012 against a guy named "Doug Weitzman" (which is just a tiny bit too ethnic)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
electing judges is bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
Everyone openly admits they either just skip the judges on the ballot or just vote randomly It's really bad
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I mean part of the problem is the inherent contradictions involved in making it an election, because you're NOT ALLOWED to directly campaign on "the issues" in a way that would get people to care No pointing to any actual case and going "I wouldn't have ruled that way"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
No but you get to be really racist in oblique terms
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
That story arc of Fresh Prince where Uncle Phil is tired of waiting for his turn at an appointment to the bench to come up so he decides to challenge Judge Robertson (Sherman Hemsley) whose seat is up for election Ha ha oh man
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"Philip, you were always a better lawyer than me. I don't doubt you'd be a better judge than me. Hell, you may well be a better man than me But NONE of that matters the moment you're running against me in an election An ELECTION, Phil"
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If anything Fresh Prince greatly exaggerated the sophistication and persistence of the scumbag tactics needed to win a Superior Court Judge election, especially for an incumbent running against a newcomer presenting himself as a crusading reformer
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He'd just need to subtly signal to a total engaged electorate of like 4,000 people max that this dude is really fat, or something (Will airing an unapproved campaign ad that prominently features Phil messily eating a sandwich would've just been the end of it)
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