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Buying Time -- Special Interests and Supreme Court Elections

With only six weeks to go before Election Day, special interest groups have been conspicuously absent from television advertising campaigns in state supreme court elections.

September 24, 2008
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Buying Time -- Alabama

Spending continues in Alabama, increasing in some situations.

September 18, 2008
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Buying Time -- 2008

Analysis of judicial races earlier this year shows that interest group targeting and big money court-campaigns remain deeply entrenched, despite the fact that campaigns may not be flooded with excessive spending.

September 11, 2008
Fair Courts
Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Review West Virginia Case

The Center for Justice, along with the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the Reform Institute, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in a case with national ramifications regarding one of the most basic rights in any system of law: the right to a fair hearing before an impartial arbiter.

August 5, 2008
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Harman Mining Company (W. Virginia recusal case)

Press release from counsel of Harman Mining Co. announcing that Ted Olson will represent them in the U.S. Supreme Court.

May 15, 2008
Fair Courts
BC Proposal Offers Fresh Ideas and Reforms to End the Growing Threat to Judicial Impartiality

In an effort to restore trust in our justice system, the Brennan Center for Justice has published a new report that seeks to eliminate even the appearance of an imbalanced judiciary with consistent principles and rules for when a judge should step down from a case.

April 7, 2008
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Raises New Questions About Judicial Election Reform

An African American justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court lost his bid for re-election Tuesday in a racially charged and interest group-dominated campaign that raises new questions about the role of money in judicial campaigns.

April 2, 2008
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Special Interests Continue Dominance of WI Airwaves in High Court Race

Press release reporting over $2 million of spending on TV ads

March 26, 2008
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Special Interests Dominate Wisconsin Airways in High Court Race

Press release reporting on WI Supreme Court candidates sponsoring only 5 percent of television campaign ads.

March 20, 2008
Fair Courts
Plaintiff's Counsel on Supreme Court Decision in Lopez Torres v. NYS Board of Elections

This morning plaintiffs' counsel issued the following statement in response to the decision issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding New York's system of selecting State Supreme Court Justices (trial judges in New York). The case is New York State Board of Elections v. López Torres. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, together with co-counsel Arnold & Porter LLP and Jenner & Block LLP, represents the plaintiffs in the litigation.

January 16, 2008
Fair Courts

Brennan Center for Justice

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Press Releases

Buying Time -- Special Interests and Supreme Court Elections

Buying Time -- Alabama

Buying Time -- 2008

Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Review West Virginia Case

Harman Mining Company (W. Virginia recusal case)

BC Proposal Offers Fresh Ideas and Reforms to End the Growing Threat to Judicial Impartiality

Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Raises New Questions About Judicial Election Reform

Special Interests Continue Dominance of WI Airwaves in High Court Race

Special Interests Dominate Wisconsin Airways in High Court Race

Plaintiff's Counsel on Supreme Court Decision in Lopez Torres v. NYS Board of Elections

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