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A group frustrated by Oklahoma Supreme Court rulings has launched an unusual campaign aimed at convincing voters to remove three justices ... James Edmondson. The ads list their ages as being ...
The two other justices who faced a retention vote, Noma Gurich and James Edmondson, held on to their seats on the bench by narrow margins. Edmondson earned the most support, ending up with 51% of ...
Outside groups have spent at least $3.4 million on political advertising ahead of the Nov. 5 vote on whether to retain three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices.The three justices, James Edmondson ...
He won reelection and served in that post until his appointment to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. [6] Governor Brad Henry appointed Edmondson as an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2003, replacing the retiring Justice Hardy Summers. Edmondson was retained on the court in the 2006 election, and served as chief justice from 2009 to ...
Incumbent Justice Yvonne Kauger, who was appointed by Governor George Nigh in 1984, ran for re-election. On election day, Kauger was narrowly removed by voters, becoming the first Supreme Court Justice to lose a retention election in Oklahoma 's history.
The mere concept engendered years of political controversy, court suits based on freedom of religion issues, destruction in 2014 by a man who drove his car into it, replacement in the same location, and even attempts to remove Supreme Court justices who ruled in 2014 that the monument must be removed to another site. After Governor Mary Fallin ...
Those two women, Justices Yvonne Kauger and Noma Gurich, along with fellow Justice James Edmondson, all face a judicial retention vote as part of the Nov. 5 general election.
The court was established when Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, and was initially composed of five justices, with the state divided into a corresponding number of judicial districts. [1] In 1917, the court was expanded to nine justices, with the judicial districts being redrawn accordingly, and with the seats for the fourth and fives ...