What is the big deal? Aren issues like health care and education more pressing than improvements to the way we pick judges?
Like most Missourians, we too are concerned about the quality of education in Missouri as well as the high cost of health care. And the biggest reason the Missouri Court Plan must be reformed is that Missouri’s judges impact virtually every aspect of our lives. For instance, important tort reform legislation aimed at attracting the highest quality doctors to Missouri, while lowering the cost of health care for everyone, is under serious threat from the plaintiffs’ bar. The powerful leadership of the plaintiffs’ bar in Missouri have a great financial interest in dismantling this and similar reforms, so they will go to almost any length to ensure that the judges before whom they practice are friendly to their agenda. Several studies have shown that frivolous lawsuits are increasing the cost of living all over the United States. In fact, a recent study by Missouri law professor William Eckhardt persuasively demonstrated that Missouri’s judicial selection process has steadily pushed our ow
