11.   He was also surprised at how much power the sanctioning organizations had in regard to selecting judges.

12.   If the case is transferred to the District of Kansas, Chief Judge Thomas Van Bebber in Kansas City, Kan., would select a judge to preside.

13.   In Alabama, The Birmingham News said in an editorial last month that the state ought to move toward an appointive system of selecting judges to stop campaign abuses.

14.   McCain said he does not believe in litmus tests, and Bradley said he would select judges based on competence.

15.   Only a handful of people know how judges are selected or what the criteria are, Rudnick said.

16.   Political contributors and consultants effectively select judges in Miami because a powerful consultant on the payroll often discourages an election challenge from another candidate.

17.   Pfenning suggested that, at the time, the proposal to disallow federations from selecting judges was seen as too radical.

18.   That judge will be selected by random rotation among the four active district judges.

19.   The change in how judges are selected was supposed to remove politics from the process.

20.   The effort was organized by Herbert Brownell Jr., who subsequently became attorney general in the Eisenhower administration and a central figure in selecting federal judges.