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HI: Dems Hope Voters Forgot; Try Scheme Again

Less than two years after voters soundly rejected a scheme by Democratic legislators to prevent Republican Gov. Linda Lingle from appointing a new chief justice of the state Supreme Court before her term ends, the Democrats are at it again.Lawmakers are taking another stab at passing a constitutional amendment this year to end mandatory retirement at 70 for state judges to spare the current Democrat-appointed Chief Justice Ronald Moon, who turns 70 in 2010, from having to retire before Lingle leaves office late that year.

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