Campaign to Intimidate America’s State Judges

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From the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign:

A new report has been released by three nonpartisan legal reform groups about the unprecedented national attack on state courts.

The report warns that “the story of the 2009-10 elections, and their aftermath in state legislatures in 2011, reveals a coalescing national campaign that seeks to intimidate America’s state judges into becoming accountable to money and ideologies instead of the constitution and the law.”

Wisconsin is a case in point. “Wisconsin’s Supreme Court used to be a national model. Now its reputation has been trashed and its deliberations have grown so politically divided and dysfunctional that they’ve even degenerated into physical confrontations,” said Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. “It’s hard not to notice that the court took a decided turn for the worse when Wisconsin stopped having Supreme Court elections and started having Supreme Court auctions.”

For the full report follow this link, http://newpoliticsreport.org/.

(h/t: Jennifer Rubin)

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