Analysis & Commentary
State Judicial Elections

Buying Time—2008

The 2008 reports continue the groundbreaking analysis first conducted in 2000 examining the sponsorship, content and costs of televised state Supreme Court campaign ads.

– 05/07/08

Wisconsin State Court, Butler Ad, Mar. 3, 2008

Ad from Wisconsin State Supreme Court race. Ad features Justice Louis Butler.

– 04/17/08

Certain American values transcend partisan divisions. One is that money should not influence the courts. But with record sums pouring into judicial elections, the ideal of due process is giving way to a perception of pay-to-play justice.

Authored by: James Sample
– 03/22/08

Buying Time: Television Advertising in the 2004 State Supreme Court Elections

Leading up to the November 2004 election, the Brennan Center released real-time reports on television advertising in state Supreme Court elections. The 2004 reports continued the groundbreaking analysis first conducted in 2000 and 2002, examining the sponsorship, content and costs of televised state Supreme Court campaign ads.