Record spending by secretive outside special interests in state supreme court races poses a stark threat to the impartiality of the nation’s courts.
Alicia Bannon
Alicia Bannon is senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
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Secret Money Floods Judicial Elections
Unlimited, undisclosed spending is playing an ever-greater role in state supreme court races, undermining the fairness of the courts and putting judges at risk of conflicts of interest.