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Wilder’s Last Act: Quest To Revive The Tennessee Plan Dies For Session

By Kleinheider Posted on May 20, 2008 at 9:32 pm

An inglorious end to a glorious career:

Ken Whitehouse reports this evening that Senator John Wilder has lost his fight, in his last legislative session, to preserve, protect and extend the Tennessee Plan for selecting Supreme Court and appellate judges.

Wilder pleaded last week in the Government Operations Committee not to allow the provision to sunset. He was unsuccessful then and he was unsuccessful again tonight when he tried to move the the resolution to the floor.

During a long speech Wilder implores the body and calls out specific past allies to do this one last thing for him but none of the Republicans who had in the past stood with him in bipartisan battles joined him on this one.

See the video above and the full report on the main site from Ken Whitehouse for the sad story of the lion’s last roar.

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5 Responses to “Wilder’s Last Act: Quest To Revive The Tennessee Plan Dies For Session”

  1. Zipperhead writes
    May 20th, 2008 10:46 pm

    Far be it from me to interject a little fact into the deluded speculation of the right-wing online Romper Room, but the Tennessee Plan has been declared constitutional.

  2. Drew Johnson writes
    May 21st, 2008 3:14 am

    Incorrect, Zipperhead. The Tennessee Plan has never been declared constitutional as it relates to a full eight year term.

    What was certainly a sad day for the most important Tennessee politician of the 20th century was a great moment of triumph for the Tennessee Constitution.

  3. nedwilliams writes
    May 21st, 2008 11:23 am

    You can read more about the constitutional issues here (and I guess it helps to be a trial lawyer-endorsed judge to interpret the constitution the way “merit selection’s” proponents want).

    And even if it is “constitutional,” zipperhead, it isn’t “popular.” Isn’t democracy great?

  4. Donna Locke writes
    May 21st, 2008 4:59 pm

    Wilder was on the sleazy-wrong side of this, just as he was on the sleazy-wrong side in other ways so many times. No tears for the guy.

  5. terryfrank.net » One Step Closer to Voting for Your Supreme Court Justice writes
    May 22nd, 2008 5:32 am

    […] A.C. Kleinheider has a very good write up on the subject over at NashvillePost.    […]

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