Letter: The Utah judiciary is in danger of becoming politicalized. That must not happen.

Letter: Kirk Cullimore's SB 129 'would collapse Utah’s eight judicial districts into just three and would create new judicial nominating commissions that could be fully partisan.'

This proposal to redraw the lines of Utah’s judicial districts and to enable the judicial nominating process to become a captured partisan exercise arrives shortly after the Utah Supreme Court received a case challenging the lines drawn by the Legislature for the state’s congressional districts.

There should be bipartisan support to protect our state judiciary — which is a model across the nation for bipartisanship and independence — from even the appearance of such politicalization, which will damage the institution for years to come, and perhaps permanently.

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