Category Archives: judicial elections
“Rare big win for Democrats tilts party balance on NC Supreme Court”
Charlotte Observer:
As people pore over election results, trying to make sense of a year that has baffled many, some in North Carolina are trying to decipher the reasons for Wake County Superior Court Judge Mike Morgan’s resounding victory over… Continue reading
“State Judicial Elections Become Political Battlegrounds”
NC Racial Gerrymandering Decisions Featured in Ad Against NC Justice Edmunds
“No Guardians of These Names”
National Institute on Money in State Politics:
On Sept. 14, 2016, The Guardian released 1,500 pages of leaked documents pertaining to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s alleged coordination with conservative dark money groups during the 2011 and 2012 Wisconsin recall… Continue reading
“Supreme Court candidates suggest their opponents have been bought”
Montana Standard:
But the spike in spending on judicial campaigns has heightened public concerns over whether the justices who are elected can do that.
More than $1.1 million has been raised by Juras, Sandefur and organizations supporting their campaigns, according… Continue reading
“Lessons From Pa.’s Judicial Retirement Age Ballot Fiasco”
Howard Bashman:
s polling expert Berwood Yost of Franklin & Marshall College persuasively demonstrated in an essay that The Philadelphia Inquirer published last week, the current phrasing of the ballot question is misleading insofar as it omits that Pennsylvania’s current… Continue reading
WI Prosecutors’ Statement on #JohnDoe Cert Denial
Here.
What a shame.
“US Supreme Court rejects John Doe appeal”
Wisconsin State Journal:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by three Democratic district attorneys seeking to revive a criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign — effectively ending the legal wrangling over the four-year-old probe.
The… Continue reading
“Secret Money Floods Judicial Elections”
TAP:
John Paul Stevens called it right. Dissenting in 2010 from the Supreme Court’s notorious Citizens United ruling to overturn limits on big spending in campaigns, the now-retired Supreme Court justice warned that the decision’s toxic implications would extend… Continue reading
Full Court Press to Get #SCOTUS to Take Up WI #JohnDoe Case (As It Should)
Lincoln Caplan in the New Yorker.
Billy Corriher at Think Progress.
“Editorial: The ethical collapse of Justices Michael Gableman and David Prosser”
Cap Times:
Four years after Walker’s email declared that Johnson and the Wisconsin Club for Growth were vital to electing Prosser and Gableman, these two justices cast decisive votes in a state Supreme Court decision that shut down an investigation… Continue reading
“NC Supreme Court election could change ideological tilt”
News and Observer:
It was not until May that it became clear Edmunds would face any challengers in his campaign to keep his seat.
In 2015, the Republican-led General Assembly passed a law that changed how sitting justices could be… Continue reading