1.   Only two judges have been turned out of office since Wyoming adopted this method of judicial selection nearly twenty years ago.

2.   State judicial selection procedures are even more severely criticized.

3.   Among those issues, he named abortion rights, judicial selections, tax and spending priorities, energy development and environmental protection.

4.   At least three of the lawyers involved in judicial selection worked on congressional Whitewater investigations.

5.   But because the question of rulings from the bench and judicial selection have become campaign issues, the remarks of Rehnquist took on added resonance.

6.   But State District Judge Sharolyn Wood, a Houston Republican and veteran of previous judicial selection fights, voiced the problem perceived by opponents of subdistrict plans.

7.   Champagne, who has written books on judicial selection in Texas, was particularly critical of the proposal to change the ways judges are nominated.

8.   For Bush, who has appointed scores of judges including four members of the Texas Supreme Court, judicial selection has long been a bone of contention.

9.   For years, Tom Phillips, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, has expended a lot of his considerable intellect on the issue of judicial selection.

10.   It is also in marked contrast to the eight years of the Clinton administration, in which the White House did not make judicial selection a major priority.