(The
writer is editor/co-publisher of the Metropolitan News-Enterprise
and general counsel for the Metropolitan News Company. A member
of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Texas, he has
a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. In a journalistic
capacity, Grace has covered judicial elections for more than 30
years.)
The
articles on judicial election law appeared in the Metropolitan News-Enterprise
in 1998. Since then, municipal courts have become extinct. Accordingly,
the law relating to elections to those courts is of historical interest,
only.
New
Ethical Restrictions on Lawyers in Running for Judgeships
