The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that judicial candidates can identify themselves as Republicans or Democrats, but identifying themselves as conservative or liberal "runs afoul of rules to keep politics out of judicial campaigns," The Associated Press' Bruce Schreiner reports.
The court majority further said that a judicial candidate's declaration that he or she is a liberal or a conservative violates the state constitutional requirement that judicial elections be nonpartisan in "'truth and substance.'"
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