Coalition for Impartial Justice | Impartial Courts Minnesota » judicial elections http://www.impartialcourts.org Judges based on merit. Election based on performance. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:40:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 The Influence of Big Money on the Wisconsin Supreme Court http://www.impartialcourts.org/2009/11/05/the-influence-of-big-money-on-the-wisconsin-supreme-court/ http://www.impartialcourts.org/2009/11/05/the-influence-of-big-money-on-the-wisconsin-supreme-court/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:44:05 +0000 admin http://www.impartialcourts.org/?p=199 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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