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Missouri Bar judge evaluations available to voters

CLAY COUNTY — Voters in Clay County are being asked to make a host of decisions on the November ballot including whether 10 judges should retain their current positions on the bench.In order to help voters decide, the Missouri Bar Association evaluates judges and publishes findings online at yourmissourijudges.org.“The Missouri judicial performance review process was developed after a committee studied model rules and best practices from the American Bar Association and more than 20 judicial performance evaluation systems in the nation,” reports the Missouri Bar Association.The review committee reviews the performances of judges who sit on the state Supreme Court, the court of appeals and each judicial circuit judge selected through the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan, including the 7th Circuit of Clay County.

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Voters to decide women’s reproductive freedom rights

Voters in Missouri’s November election will decide women’s right to reproductive freedom and whether to reverse the state’s near total-ban on abortion with Amendment 3.The ballot language asks voters if they want to amend the state Constitution to: “establish a right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, with any governmental interference of that right presumed invalid; remove Missouri’s ban on abortion; allow regulation of reproductive health care to improve or maintain the health of the patient; require the government not to discriminate, in government programs, funding and other activities, against persons providing or obtaining reproductive health care; and allow abortion to be restricted or banned after fetal viability except to protect the life or health of the woman?”

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