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A proposed amendment to the Utah Constitution, this resolution would give the Legislature the power to trigger a special "retention election" — an up-or-down public vote — on any judge the Legislature determines is unfit, incompetent, persistently slow in deciding cases, or has acted improperly or in violation of their oath of office. Under current law, judges face routine retention elections on a set schedule (every 10 years for Supreme Court justices, every 6 years for other judges), but this amendment would allow the Legislature to put a judge before voters sooner, outside that normal cycle. The Legislature would also write the specific rules for how the process works in statute, and if a special election falls in the same year as a regular one, the special election can substitute for it. Utah voters would first decide whether to add this process to the state constitution, and if approved, it takes effect January 1, 2027.