Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment XXV

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Amendment XXV Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE XXV.*
*Adopted November 19, 1986.
Cited. 130 C. 139; 138 C. 161. Exercise of judicial power by a retired judge who has been designated a state referee
is not unconstitutional. 177 C. 173. Cited. 179 C. 140. Authority to create additional judgeships as well as to designate
those to fill them is included in this grant and also Art. III, Sec. 1 of the Connecticut Constitution which vests legislative
powers of state in the senate and the house of representatives. 193 C. 670. Cited. 195 C. 534; 199 C. 417. Provisions
of Sec. 52-434(a)(4) not in conflict. Id., 496. Cited. Id., 518; 203 C. 246; 213 C. 54; Id., 373; 222 C. 799. Method of
appointment of family support magistrates and attorney referees cited. Id. Cited. 240 C. 157.
Cited. 12 CA 190; 31 CA 278; judgment reversed, see 230 C. 385; Id., 599; judgment reversed, see 229 C. 627; 35
CA 769; 37 CA 85; 38 CA 491.
(Selection, nomination, appointment and removal of judges. Judicial selection
commission.)
Section 2 of article twenty of the amendments to the Constitution is amended to
read as follows:
Judges of all courts, except those courts to which judges are elected, shall be nomi-
nated by the governor exclusively from candidates submitted by the judicial selection
commission. The commission shall seek and recommend qualified candidates in such
numbers as shall by law be prescribed. Judges so nominated shall be appointed by the
general assembly in such manner as shall by law be prescribed. They shall hold their
offices for the term of eight years, but may be removed by impeachment. The gover-
nor shall also remove them on the address of two-thirds of each house of the general
assembly and the supreme court may also remove them as is provided by law.