COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina's top prosecutor is calling on the legislature to change the way the state picks its judges. On Monday, Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Republican, was joined by a bipartisan group of more than two dozen sheriffs and solicitors, urging reform to the judicial selection process. South Carolina is one of two states where the legislature elects judges, and under this system, lawmakers also decide who sits on the candidate screening panel, called the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, or JMSC.

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