 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | In state after state, campaign contributions and related spending by special interests have risen dramatically in the past decade and are expected to swell in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which removed any limits on independent spending. Wisconsin is one of 22 states that elect judges to their highest courts, or one of 38 if you count states that have so-called retention elections by which appointed judges run to retain their seats. In all of them, independent spending threatens to overwhelm the system of electing judges, making them and the candidates running against them dependent on private money and eroding the public's confidence in the courts. "When we compare the lists of actual contributors to the lists of people who show up in Supreme Court cases." Internet search for phrase "Justice for sale" gives surprising result. |
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