WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Justice at Stake Campaign: This special report shows how five midwestern states—Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin—have become caught up in America’s “New Politics of Judicial Elections.” Download the press release …
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Brennan Center for Justice By James Sample, David Pozen and Michael Young This paper takes its cue from Justice Anthony Kennedy's concurrence in the 2002 case of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White. Download a PDF…
WASHINGTON, DC -- Special interest pressure is metastasizing into a permanent national threat to the fairness and impartiality of America’s courts, according to a major new report from the Justice at Stake Campaign and its partners, the Brennan Center for…
CHICAGO – A new national analysis of 2006 judicial elections cites Illinois as a harbinger of the next battleground for special interest groups: the struggle to influence state appellate court races. The Justice at Stake Campaign,…
CHICAGO—Illinois at a glance….. Concerns about money and corruption in politics have become top-tier issues on par with healthcare, education and taxes in Illinois, according to state specific results in the Joyce Foundation survey on political…
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