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 NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg took on the state's judicial nominating system Sunday, calling it a "farce" in which politics and "shady back-room deals" put unqualified jurists on the bench.
The mayor, fresh off a re-election victory, called for the creation of independent commissions to approve judicial candidates before their names appear on the ballot.
"We must change the farce of 'electing' judges, which bears more of a resemblance to voting in the Soviet Union than in the United States of America," Bloomberg wrote in an opinion article published in Sunday's New York Daily News.
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