They are here, and she actually never one the election for the appeals court because the federal ruling came in between the primary and the runoff election and the front runner, Miriam Waltzer (a white lady and holocaust survivor), bowed out so that Johnson could get onto the supreme court which the feds were requiring went to a black judge.
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If you go to that website and lookup the results for the next election November 8, 1994 you will see that this office wasn't on the ballot. An old-timer around here filled me in on the back story since I was only 11 years old in 1994. While racism does have some pertinence to this fight, there are some legitimate issues with the validity of her accession to the court and some bad blood about the federal government interfering with state matters.