Category Archives: judicial elections
“In Wisconsin, Liberals Barrage Conservative Court Candidate With Attack Ads”
NYT:
As conservatives in Wisconsin seek to maintain control of the State Supreme Court in an all-important election for a crucial swing seat, they would appear to be fighting uphill.
The conservative candidate, Daniel Kelly, is trailing in limited private… Continue reading
“In Wisconsin’s nationally watched Supreme Court race, candidate Janet Protasiewicz agrees to 1 televised debate, skips other public forums”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz agreed Monday to one televised debate and has turned down other public forums that voters have used to hear from candidates for the state’s highest court — including a debate that has… Continue reading
“Wisconsin should stop electing justices to the state Supreme Court”
Wisconsin: “Janet Protasiewicz, Daniel Kelly advance in high stakes, high-spending Supreme Court race”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz and former Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly emerged Tuesday as the two winners of a record-setting primary fight to compete for a seat on the state’s highest court that will decide whether the… Continue reading
“Bice: Supreme Court candidate Daniel Kelly was paid $120,000 by Republicans to work on ‘election integrity,’ advise on fake electors”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Former state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly — who has been critical of his opponents for their partisanship — has been paid nearly $120,000 by the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee over the past two years… Continue reading
“Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race is expected to top $6 million in spending. And that’s just for the primary.”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Wisconsin’s officially non-partisan Supreme Court race is getting big money from outside interest groups in one of the hotly contested races in the country.
With less than two weeks to go, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court candidates and outside groups… Continue reading
Breaking: North Carolina Supreme Court Grants Rehearing in Case Striking Down Congressional Districts as a Partisan Gerrymander, Potentially Mooting U.S. Supreme Court’s Independent State Legislature Case, Moore v. Harper
On a 5-2 vote along party lines, the North Carolina Supreme Court has granted rehearing to reconsider its decision striking the state’s congressional districts as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders under the state constitution. It is also considering the state districts as… Continue reading
“Nonpartisan in name only. Wisconsin Supreme Court race has political overtones.”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz is focusing her campaign for the state Supreme Court on her belief that women should be able to choose whether to continue pregnancies and has characterized the state’s Republican-written legislative maps as … Continue reading
“2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers on Abortion and Democracy”
NYT:
In 10 weeks, Wisconsin will hold an election that carries bigger policy stakes than any other contest in America in 2023.
The April race, for a seat on the state’s evenly divided Supreme Court, will determine the fate of… Continue reading
“Leonard Leo is quietly remaking state high courts in his conservative image”
Grid News:
For the past decade, Leonard Leo has led a multimillion-dollar effort to remake state Supreme Courts, leveraging hefty support from corporate backers like Philip Morris and Charles Koch and his late brother, David.
Leo, a longtime conservative… Continue reading
“Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy”
AP:
Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor isn’t rattled on a personal level by the political attacks she endured from fellow Republicans during Ohio’s protracted redistricting fight. She’s confident she “did the right thing” in ruling their proposed political maps… Continue reading
Divided Sixth Circuit enjoins some enforcement of Kentucky’s campaign speech rules in upcoming judicial election
From the per curiam opinion (Judges Thapar and Murphy) in Fischer v. Thomas (with light revisions):
Challenge to Delaware’s Efforts to Balance Partisan Composition of Judiciary to Proceed
AP: Delaware courts (including its Supreme Court, Court of Chancery and Superior Court) are subject to a constitutional provision that seeks to maintain a partisan balance on its courts by providing that “no more than a bare majority of… Continue reading