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Choose Your Judges is an independent website dedicated to providing information to voters about judicial elections.

On this site you can answer a brief series of questions regarding your preferences about judicial candidates, and the website will recommend judicial candidates for state supreme court elections based on your preferences.

To take the quiz and receive your recommendation, please click on your home state.



Choose Your Judges also provides facts about judicial elections and commentaries discussing different aspects of the intersection between politics and judges. For more information about how our method of recommending judicial candidates works, please click here.


State Supreme Courts Issue Ruling in Key Voting Cases

October 31, 2020

The importance of state supreme courts has never been more evident than in recent weeks as courts in state after state resolve disputes about the upcoming election. These decisions do not always fall along predictable partisan lines. In Texas, Republicans occupy all nine seats on the state Supreme Court, but … Continue reading

North Carolina Returns to Partisan Elections

October 30, 2020

North Carolina conducted partisan judicial elections for most of its history until 2004. The state was controlled by Democrats, and so partisan elections allowed the Democratic party to dominate the courts as well. Then in 2004, as Republicans became more successful in statewide elections, Democrats in the state legislature switched … Continue reading

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