<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post3581756781440462103..comments</id><updated>2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Advance Indiana™: Acting Chief Justice Dickson Encourages Applicants For Supreme Court</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/3581756781440462103/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/04/acting-chief-justice-dickson-encourages.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Gary R. Welsh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-5957099878980168273</id><published>2012-04-26T15:02:19.307-05:00</published><updated>2012-04-26T15:02:19.307-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What a load of horseshit, as if this process is tr...</title><content type='html'>What a load of horseshit, as if this process is truly open to all attorneys. The establishment will choose one of its own, and people are encouraged to apply to give legitimacy to what is a foreordained process. Let them be honest and choose one from the pool of one they&amp;#39;ve already created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further, we really need to get away from this destructive and enslaving practice of allowing only attorneys to be judges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s a statewide office. All in the state should be eligible to fill it, be the applicant an author, businessman, scientist or truck driver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The law is created by the legislature, an office for which there are few qualifications. Determining what is within the law that the average Hoosier has created can and ought be performed by the average Hoosier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This practice of keeping judicial offices only for attorneys is a neat scam attorneys dreamt up for themselves, and it&amp;#39;s nothing but an unscrupulous economic rent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t see how any thinking man can respect the product of the judicial branch.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/3581756781440462103/comments/default/5957099878980168273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/3581756781440462103/comments/default/5957099878980168273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/04/acting-chief-justice-dickson-encourages.html?showComment=1335470539307#c5957099878980168273' title=''/><author><name>Cato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03341628086158209539</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/04/acting-chief-justice-dickson-encourages.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-3581756781440462103' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/posts/default/3581756781440462103' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-327548076"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="3:02 PM GMT-5"/></entry></feed>