The Brennan Center for Justice defended Arizona's campaign finance law before the Supreme Court with its pro bono counsel Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. The Center released the following statement from Executive Director Michael Waldman on the Supreme Court’s decision in McComish v. Bennett.

Declaring that judges play a unique role in our governmental system, two nonpartisan national reform groups urged a federal appeals court today to uphold Wisconsin’s Impartial Justice Act, which provides for public financing of state Supreme Court elections.

In a letter to the Governor, a prominent group of bipartisan political figures argues: “Real change can’t happen in Albany until we limit the torrent of special interest money flowing into incumbents’ coffers and create a public funding system that will provide a real alternative for candidates from the current status quo of money and politics.”

New York, NY- The Brennan Center for Justice issued the following statement today after Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed numerous ethics and election reforms - including a unitary independent ethics commission and public financing of elections -in his first State of the State speech this afternoon.