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LANSING, Michigan—By a three-to-one margin, Michigan voters believe that there is a probability of bias when a judge hears a case involving a major financial supporter of his election campaign, according…
ST.PAUL, Minnesota—Meanwhile, Common Cause Minnesota issued the Minnesota Election Report, which recommends that Minnesota election law be changed to simplify the voting registration process, to improve training of election judges and…
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Justice at Stake Campaign: This special report shows how five midwestern states—Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin—have become caught up in America’s “New Politics of Judicial Elections.” Download the press release …
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…
WASHINGTON, DC -- Special interest pressure is metastasizing into a permanent national threat to the fairness and impartiality of America’s courts, according to a major new report from the Justice at Stake Campaign and its partners, the Brennan Center for…
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