Mark Joseph Stern (Slate) offers a round-up on state supreme court races and analysis.

“Across the country, voters also elected liberal justices to their state Supreme Courts, which function as a key backstop for civil rights and democracy as federal courts lurch rightward. Progressives didn’t win a clean sweep, but they emerged with an impressive scorecard, carrying seats in battlegrounds like Michigan and safely red states like Kentucky and Montana. Left-leaning judicial candidates even prevailed in deep-red Arkansas and Mississippi, bucking the national shift rightward.”

It was not a clean sweep:

• Republicans secured a 6–1 conservative majority on the Ohio Supreme Court.
• A liberal lion on the Oklahoma Supreme Court lost a retention vote.
• “Progressives . . . failed to knock off conservative justices who faced retention elections in several purple states, including Arizona.”