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Ohio voters will not see the party affiliations of judicial candidates next election, a federal judge ruled.Judge Susan Dlott of U.S. District Court in Cincinnati rejected a request to allow judicial candidates…
Spending on state Supreme Court elections has more than doubled in the past decade, from $83.3 million in 1990-1999 to $206.9 million in…
With big-spending judicial races a possibility this year, four candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court have taken a clean-campaign pledge proposed by the…
Around the country the subject of Fair & Impartial Courts keeps coming up, states are looking at the effectiveness of selecting judges based on a merit system instead of elections. Many states…
Noted leader of the Supreme Court’s liberals Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement today.Justice Stevens’ 34-year career had been hinting about his retirement for weeks in interviews and private conversations, according…
