Judicial Elections Won’t Get Another Supreme Court Look

By Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg BNA

Arizona’s restrictions on judicial candidates’ speech will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take a closer look.

Today the court decided not to review an en banc lower court’s decision upholding those restrictions in the face of a First Amendment challenge.

That may be because the high court already heard a recent case on judicial speech.

In 2015, the high court upheld Florida’s restrictions on judicial candidates’ speech inWilliams-Yulee v. Fla. Bar, 83 U.S.L.W. 4269, 2015 BL 123637, U.S., April 29, 2015.

The lower court’s decision in this case was ...