'These kinds of dark money operations engulfing our state judicial systems are already having an effect on who sits on our state courts and how they operate.'
State supreme courts can be vital to protecting Americans' freedoms, though the U.S. Supreme Court gets most of the attention, especially lately with its rulings limiting federal protection for reproductive rights, voting rights, gun safety, and our environment. State courts are where the vast majority–90%–of civil and criminal cases of the country are decided.
But fair courts in the states are being targeted by some of the same right-wing dark money forces that have captured the U.S. Supreme Court.by the Brennan Center for Justice found that in 2022 so far legislators in at least 25 states had introduced more than 70 bills that would politicize or undermine the independence of state courts–a growing assault on fair courts.
Another major threat looms in Alaska, where voters will decide whether or not to hold a state constitutional convention, which would open the door to eliminating merit selection in the state widely seen as a leader in judicial independence.
he emphasized that"the judiciary may be the most important instrument for social, economic, and political change."a subsidiary, dubbed the"Judicial Fairness Initiative" , to influence judicial elections because independent state courts devoted to following precedent had become a barrier to the GOP's political and policy agenda.
Notably, the transfers from RSLC to JFI often occur right after the deadline for disclosing primary donations, but then due to the timing of filing deadlines don't get reported federally until after the general election for those judges. This has allowed JFI to stealthily scope out scorched earth-ad buys in the week before the general election–spending more in a few days than the candidates themselves raised and spent all year.
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