Explain why water logged soils are usually deficient in nitrates

Low levels of oxygen in/by the root zone causes soil & plants to turn deficient and die .

another reason is because anaerobic microbes that have gotten waterlogged create a toxic/bad waste that harms its surrounding living plants.

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.