New Politics 2009-10:
A Campaign to ‘Intimidate America’s State Judges’

“The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2010” documents 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.” It examines the hostile takeover of judicial elections by special interests and a ferocious round of attacks, unleashed in legislatures across the country, against impartial justice.

The report was written by the Justice at Stake Campaign, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

To arrange interviews, contact:

Charles Hall, Justice at Stake, 202-588-9454, chall@justiceatstake.org
Jeanine Plant-Chirlin, 646-292-8322, chirlinj@exchange.law.nyu.edu
Erik Opsal, 646-292-8356, erik.opsal@nyu.edu

Read the full press release on the Justice at Stake Campaign’s website.

Download just the text of portion of the New Politics of Judicial Elections: 2009–10 as a PDF. [5.7 MB]

Download the Complete New Politics of Judicial Elections: 2009–10 as a PDF. [9+ MB]

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The appendix referenced on page 28 of the report is available here as an Excel sheet.
Or a ZIP archive with each state as a CSV text file.