How Do You Pick A Judge?

Today's Times- Standard has a short article on all the judges up for election this year. Not really so much about the individual judges but the fact most of us are hard pressed to decide who to vote for.

I mentioned the same thing on Eric's blog a little while back. I suggested it would be nice , being a libertarian, if some legal group, like the Institute For Justice, would look at the candidate's histories to get an idea of how they rule in certain kinds of cases. For example; Do they tend to favor the power of the state over the individual.

That would be a tough row to hoe as just deciding which types of cases to include as criteria would probably have most libertarians shouting at each other. Must be the same with other political types as I'm not aware of any other groups endorsing judges based on their records. Surely some environmental groups do though, don't they?

About the best one could do right now is take a look at the County Elections web page the Times- Standard mentioned today(I tried to copy and paste the link they gave into my browser and it didn't work. You need to add a / to the end of the url), or perhaps the League of Women Voters Smartvoter page. Of course, all those pages have is the judge's resumes which can take some time to go through and still doesn't really tell what kind of judge they've been.

So what does one do? Myself? I just stood aside, as the Greens like to say, and didn't vote in any of the judicial elections. Anyone have any particular way they decide how to vote for judges, assuming they vote in those races at all?