Nothing invites voter confidence like a judicial candidate who doesn’t know the law. When the Charleston Daily Mail recently exposed the Menis Ketchum Supreme Court campaign for running television ads featuring the personal injury lawyer-turned-High-Court-wannabe with uniformed police officers, a violation of state law, Ketchum told reporter Justin Anderson “I didn’t know it” and pretty much blamed the damned law librarian.

According to Anderson, Ketchum said “the law isn’t in the elections section of state code, but is in a set of laws governing city police forces.”

Shouldn’t a candidate for the state’s highest court know the law? Now we have two Supreme Court candidates in the May 13 Democratic primary who have been slapped on the writ for advertising infractions: Ketchum for using police officers as “pawns,” in the words of one longtime political observer; and Margaret Workman, who was advised by the State Bar not to continue advertising for her law practice with photos of her in a judge’s robe.

Click here to read the full Daily Mail story.

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