Opinion by Ruth Marcus: The real contest of 2022? The battle for state supreme courts.
by labor unions, trial lawyers and others, and which has reported raising more than $7 million since it was created in August. “The Justice in this seat on the Illinois Supreme Court will decide if abortion remains legal in Illinois.”
On the other side, Citizens for Judicial Fairness, funded by conservative billionaire Ken Griffin, reported spending nearly $5 million this month on Supreme Court races.Meanwhile, a federal judge earlier this month, acting in a lawsuit filed by another conservative group, Fair Courts America, funded by conservative billionaire Richard Uihlein, blocked enforcement of two state laws passed in response to the big spending on judicial elections in 2020.
“The courts that we are left with today are courts that are subject to years of money and legislative manipulation to affect who sits on them,” said Douglas Keith, who studies spending on judicial races for the Brennan Center. This is a mess, one that promises to become even worse in coming years. It’s the last thing that the judicial system needs, at a moment when courts are increasingly — and, given the staggering sums spent on them, understandably — viewed as just another cog in the partisan political machinery.
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