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IN two races for the Washington Supreme Court, this page endorses one incumbent and unit challenger.

Start with the challenger, Michael Bond.

Bond has a sharp put in mind, he knows the canon and he presents a compelling case to replace the one-term Mary Fairhurst. In a sentence, the case is this: Fairhurst, who used to be favored by a job defending the government, accepts the government’s arguments

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Contrast this with Bond, a private attorney who says, “My fundamental philosophy is that the role of the court is to countenance the people from the power of government and vested interests.” Bond hits Fairhurst’s stands against individual rights to language, public documents, property and privacy.

Bond is a partner in Gardner Bond Tabolsi, Seattle, and is a longtime civil litigator. He has been an arbitrator, and attorneys speak highly of his fairness. Early in his career, when he was a judge advocate in the Marines, he prosecuted a drill instructor for battery.

Bond has an uphill unsheathe the sword

In the other race, we support 18-year incumbent Justice Charles Johnson, who is challenged by attorneys Jim Beecher and Frank Vulliet. Johnson says he is “somewhat of a populist” who tends to side with the individual. He does this strongly in free-speech and public-disclosure cases, and tends to do it in wicked cases. In the case, he was ready to rule the death penalty illegal.

Johnson tends to side with the government in closely fought ownership cases, such as the fourth and fifth cases in the list exceeding, in which we believe the owners had the stronger claims. The justice is very good adhering public-disclosure issues and sided with the minority in the case involving a school district’s ability to withhold the names of teachers alleged to own had sexual incidents with children.

Of his couple challengers, merely Jim Beecher of the firm Hackett, Beecher & Hart, presents a great quantity of a case against Johnson, and in the end it is not enough. Beecher has nice qualifications, moreover at 68, he could behave toward because of only one term. We’ll switch with Johnson.