A growing number of residents in Southcentral Alaska have voted against retaining judges, which has caused concerns for some in Alaska’s legal profession.
The effort to oust Zeman has so far been modest and largely informal. But it does reflect a growing trend of state judges facing efforts from conservatives to unseat them after issuing contentious decisions, and of residents in Southcentral Alaska voting against retaining them.by Gov. Mike Dunleavy in 2020, worked for over 15 years as an attorney in Alaska prior to becoming a judge. Born and raised in Anchorage, Zeman says he wants to stay on the bench and keep serving the community.
In June, attorneys for the plaintiffs indicated they would again contest the use of homeschool funding at private schools, meaning that if Zeman is retained as a judge, he could again rule on the constitutionality of homeschool allotments.Former Alaska Attorney General Michael Geraghty, who served in Republican Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration, is a former colleague of Zeman’s. He defended his friend’s decision on the homeschool case in a Wednesday interview.
As a state senator, Dunleavy authored the law Zeman struck down that expanded how parents of homeschooled students could use publicly funded allotments at private and religious schools.require a judge to face “active opposition” before they can campaign to be retained. Executive director Marla Greenstein said Zeman determined he faced active opposition after the May hearing.
An organization called Alaskans for Fair Courts, which states its goal is to “provide voters with nonpartisan, educational information about judicial retention process, and advocate for judges under retention election,” reported earlier this month that it hadmore than $31,000 to support Zeman’s retention, along with the retention of all other judges appearing on the November ballot.
Zeman said the process used by the Alaska Judicial Council is to determine whether judges should be retained was “comprehensive.”
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