AP:

The Judicial Crisis Network, a Washington-based group, has spent more than $600,000 on television ads targeting Justice Courtney Goodson as she runs for the chief justice post. A second group, the Republican State Leadership Committee’s Judicial Fairness Initiative, has bought about $250,000 worth of airtime for spots criticizing a Little Rock attorney in another high court race.

The nearly $1.3 million spent on TV airtime alone more than doubles the previous Arkansas record for such spending in a judicial election, according to campaign finance groups.