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The Influence of Big Money on the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

In an editorial today, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, lays out some of the facts about how two Wisconsin Supremes got elected with the help of large donations, and then did not recuse themselves from cases involving their donors, or in the case of one justice, from a case involving her own spouse. Some at the Wisconsin legislature propose public funding of judicial elections, but the newspaper just calls for disclosure of who actually is paying for all those attack ads.

Read the editorial here.

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