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MIDWEST--Civic groups in five Great Lakes states are calling on more than 700 judicial candidates to follow new campaign conduct guidelines that help them steer clear of special interest pressures and political agendas.A nine-page memo, mailed to candidates in Illinois,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. —“Judicial elections are becoming political prizefights where partisans and special interests seek to install judges who will answer to them instead of the law and the Constitution,” said former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.That remark…
Wisconsin —The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is just one example of what’s ahead, By Emma Schwartz. Not once in more than 40 years has an incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court justice lost an election—not, that is, until this week, when…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Brennan Center for Justice By James Sample, David Pozen and Michael Young This paper takes its cue from Justice Anthony Kennedy's concurrence in the 2002 case of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White. Download a PDF…
MADISON, Wisconsin, February, 2008 -- Three national organizations are speaking out in support of a voluntary public funding program for candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. At the state capitol, representatives from the Committee for Economic Development, the Justice at…
Education's less-than-certain windfall
New state tests coming to schools
Rhetoric trumps realism in campaigns for governor
Brennan Center Democracy Program
Citizen Advocacy Center Government Monitoring
George Mason University United States Elections Project