In an update to reports released in 2004 and 2006, the Center's study finds that the legislative process in Albany remains broken, and offers concrete recommendations for reform.
Candidates, interest groups, and political parties combined to spend $19,861,269 on television advertisements in state Supreme Court elections nationwide this year, announced two national watchdog groups.
Television advertisements in two states—Alabama and Michigan—accounted for three quarters of all spending on television advertising last week in state Supreme Court elections nationwide, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center.
Spending on television advertising in Supreme Court campaigns fell sharply last week, said two national watchdog groups. Nationwide candidates and interest groups spent $552,465 on television advertising, compared with $1,048,164 the week before.
Spending in the Louisiana race increased sharply just days before last week's primary election. Advertising in Alabama turned increasingly negative as campaign spending rose in that race.
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.
