Since 2000, national groups better known for influencing presidential and congressional elections turned their sights on judicial contests in several state judicial campaigns.

26 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Courts, Elections

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How Appealing, Howard Bashman, Judicial Elections, Politics

‘The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2011-12: How New Waves of Special Interest Spending Raised the Stakes for Fair Courts.’ Justice at Stake, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and the National Institute on Money in State Politics issued http://newpoliticsreport.org/ (access online in http://newpoliticsreport.org/report/2012-report/introduction/ or http://newpoliticsreport.org/content/uploads/JAS-NewPolitics2012-Online.pdf yesterday.

Also available online is a related news release titled “Outside Spending Floods Judicial Elections at Record Levels, Report Finds“, by Seth Hoy, Brennan Center for Justice, http://bit.ly/1gR6coM

Originally posted by Howard Bashman, on How Appealing Blog.