State Supreme Court And County Court Judge

We've said it before: A State Supreme Court justice who runs on the Right-to-Life ticket essentially pledges allegiance to a belief not acknowledged by current law but that may nevertheless color the justice's vision.

After eliminating those with Right-to-Life endorsement, we have, in all honesty, no basis for endorsing seven of the 11 in the remaining pool of candidates.

For County Court judge, we have three candidates for two seats after eliminating, again, the Right-to-Lifers. Intuition steers us to Stephen A. Grossman, who comes from our own hometown, and William De Vore, who, like Mr. Grossman, is a Democrat and Independence Party candidate. (The third candidate is Louis J. Ohlig, a Republican and Conservative who also has a Property Tax Cut endorsement.)

The election of judges is calculated, if anything is, to make cynics of voters. Reform has been urged for decades, but cronyism continues to hold sway.