The Importance Of A Litmus Test

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In politics, a litmus test is a question asked to a candidate or nominee for higher office, the answer that they give is used and interpreted by whomever the nominating official is so they can determine whether or not the candidate is good enough or has a good enough state of mind to move forward with the nomination or appointment. These litmus test usually have to do with situations or problems that the individual being questioned may encounter if they indeed are selected for appointment to whatever office they are trying to be appointed to. How the nominee answers each question determines whether or not the nominee has what the nominating official is looking for. How a litmus test works is that when an individual wants to be elected for
Instead I believe that they should be selected based off of how intelligent they are in dealing with political matters overall. Instead of deciding whether or not someone should be appointed based off their personal beliefs, they should instead be selected base off of their previous experience and performance as a lower level judge. When referring to my personal litmus test that I created, I believe that it is a bad litmus test because it has to deal with a very controversial topic that many people argue about on the daily basis. Being a good judge truly does not have anything to do with whether you are pro-choice or pro-life in relation to abortion. My litmus test could backfire because people would confront me saying that I am looking for the wrong things in a federal judge, they will then lose respect for me. Also if I use my litmus test to choose a candidate solely because they have an open mind I may pass up on someone who even though they are pro-life, they still put all of their personal beliefs aside because they want to make sure they come up with the best decision to a court case. But I would never know that because I chose to appoint a judge based on their opinion of a particular topic, in this case abortion, instead of finding out what they would actually do when its crunch time and they must make a

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