William Andersen, the Judson Falknor Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Law, writes this editorial for the Seattle Times in praise of public financing for judicial elections; and encouraging Washington to adopt such a system for the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.  The idea of judicial public financing has been embraced by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and championed by a number of state legislators. Judicial public financing has proved a popular and successful system in North Carolina where it was first implemented -- so successful in fact that there is considerable support behind expanding the public financing system to legislative and Council of State races.  Several other states - among them Georgia and Montana - are giving serious consideration to the judicial public financing option, concerned, as Andersen is that  "money is compromising the appearance, if not the reality, of judicial impartiality, the bedrock foundation of our court system."