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• ↓ YES on SQ 845: Judicial Nominating Commission reform
• ↓ BBC long-wave radio service goes dark after 102 years
• ↓ From the 1970s: KOTV's Chughole of the Week
• ↓ 9/11: Twenty-five years
• ↓ Will Oklahoma call a constitutional convention?
• ↓ 2026 Oklahoma runoff recap
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"SQ 845 is a half-measure, but this half-measure is better than none. The Oklahoma Constitution grants a formal role to the Oklahoma Bar Association, a left-leaning private cartel, in filtering appellate court nominees in Oklahoma, unelected and unaccountable figures restricting the choices available to the duly elected governor. State Question 845, one of two statewide referenda on the Oklahoma November 3, 2026, general election ballot, doesn't eliminate that filter or the cartel's involvement, but it does make it possible for conservative lawyers to be involved in the nomination process, something effectively impossible under current law."

"SQ 845 would make minor changes to the membership of the board that provides the governor with his options for filling judicial vacancies. It would not correct two very big problems with the judicial nominating process and the private, left-wing organization embedded in that process. SQ 845 was proposed by the legislature as HJR 1024. (I discussed the problems with the current judicial nomination process in this 2024 article in support of reform.)"

"On July 11, 1967, Oklahoma voters narrowly approved SQ 447, which added a new Article 7B to the Oklahoma Constitution, completely revamping the method of selecting appellate judges, creating a Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) to nominate appointees for the Court of Civil Appeals, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court and to fill vacancies in District Courts between elections. (The vote was Yes 86,183, 52.1%; No 79,280, 47.9%) This was a reaction to the 1965 revelation that multiple Oklahoma Supreme Court justices had received bribes over more than two decades. In 2010, voters approved SQ 752 (Yes 606,805, 62.8%; No 358,925, 37.2%), which tweaked the composition of the JNC to include two additional non-lawyer, at-large members and to ban relatives of attorneys from serving in the "lay member" seats on the JNC."

"The "professionalization" of the judiciary replaced partisan direct election of appellate judges and justices with appointments made through a complex process involving the Oklahoma Bar Association, even though none of the reforms directly addressed the causes of the scandal. A commission, composed of non-lawyers appointed by the Governor and lawyers appointed by the Oklahoma Bar Association, chooses three nominees to place before the Governor, who may appoint one of those three. The voters don't get to weigh in on the new appellate judge or justice until the next general election, when they have an up-or-down vote to retain or dismiss the new judge. (District and Associate District Judge appointees serve until the next judicial election, when they file and run as normal and may face opponents.) Voters have voted against retention only once, dismissing Supreme Court Justice Yvonne Kauger in the 2024 election."

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YES on SQ 845: Judicial Nominating Commission reform

BBC long-wave radio service goes dark after 102 years

From the 1970s: KOTV's Chughole of the Week

9/11: Twenty-five years

Will Oklahoma call a constitutional convention?

2026 Oklahoma runoff recap