The Wall Street Journal today published an interesting op-ed piece authored by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor criticizing the role that special interest groups and campaign cash have come to play in state judicial elections. Justice O’Connor points out that 39 states currently have some form of judicial elections. In my own state of Pennsylvania, the recent races for 2 open Supreme Court seats were the occasion for record expenditures by judicial candidates in the Commonwealth, and saw the employment of campaign tactics heretofore not widely seen in judicial races. Read the rest of this entry »
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