If you live in Minnesota,
Dan Griffith is on your ballot November 2, 2010!
With Dan’s experience, qualifications and passion to serve the people of Minnesota he is the candidate to elect for judge in the state-wide race for the court of appeals-seat 14. Dan Griffith has been a practicing attorney since he graduated from William Mitchell College of Law and passed the bar in 1993.
Are you frustrated over
losing your rights and freedoms?
We can win over the Executive & Legislative branches and still lose because the Judicial branch can overturn the other two. Judges do not need to be independent from the people. They need to be independent from insider politics and accountable to the people.
It is a judge’s job to hear the facts, find the truth and apply the law - not rewrite it.
Should we care?
Judges wield tremendous power over our civil rights and freedoms. Judges, like all our officials are only under people when they are subject to meaningful elections.
That is why we call our elected officials "public servents".
When judges successfully circumvent elections through timed retirements leading to political appointments, they also circumvent public accountability.
When our officials are over the people, there is tyranny. When the people are over their public servants, there is liberty.
Why this is an issue now!
There is an elitist strain running through many judges where they see themselves as above public accountability & therefore above public election. For several years judicial election rules (controlled by judges) so restricted information about judges and challengers that most voters had no idea who to vote for. Some of those restrictions were finally struck down by the US Supreme Court, paving the way for meaningful, informed elections for MN judges.
To counter the US Supreme Court decision, many judges are pushing for an amendment to our MN Constitution to take away our right to vote on the entire judicial branch. It is not just about meaningful elections. It is about what you do once you get elected.
We need to take our country back!
If Dan Griffith wins a position on the Appellate Court this November 2, 2010 it would be the first time in our state’s history that the voters of Minnesota selected one of their judges for this Court rather than having that judge first selected by the Governor through appointment. All judges on the appellate court are supposed to be elected, yet everyone has first been appointed. Even when appointees have been challenged, an appellate court judge has never lost when up for re-election. Ever.
Photo of Dan and Debbie while Dan was serving at the Defense Language Institute.
