Summary
Judicial campaigns are growing nastier, nosier and costlier.
For example, during the 2006 elections, the race between Washington state Chief Justice Gerry Alexander and attorney John Groen was marked by many negative and misleading third-party ads on both sides. Nearly $3 million was spent on Supreme Court races that year.See the full content of this document
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Impartiality Key When Picking Judges
In West Virginia, the sitting state Supreme Court Chief Justice refused to recuse himself from a case in which the losing party's CEO spent over $3 million on that justice's election. The chief justice cast the deciding vote overturning the $50 million judgment against the CEO's compa...
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