Early voting has started in Tennessee . One of the measures on the ballot is a change to Tennessee’s constitution. Currently , Tennessee’s constitution requires that all Supreme Court Justices shall be elected. When the amendment on judges was written in  1870 , big money from out of state was not around to influence elections . In

In the upcoming August election  , the most important election is whether to retain the Tennessee Supreme Court Justices . Why is the retention election important ? The battle over the current members of the Supreme Court is really an attack on our system of judicial fairness. Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey has declared war on the judicial