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State Supreme Courts
ABC News reported yesterday that groups like Justice at Stake (JAS), which tracks judicial campaign spending and fundraising, are noting rising spending in all states with judge votes. JAS's website reports that SC election fund-raising in Pennsylvania, at $5.06 million in mid-September, is already a state record. The four candidates running for two vacancies on the Keystone State's top bench have already raised over $3.5 million between them and expect to spend over $1 million each over the next two weeks, LNL reported yesterday. Some quoted by ABC oppose such growth. "When judges must raise big money for their election campaigns, public confidence in America's courts is undermined," said a JAS spokesman. "Increasingly, judges are facing escalating pressure to be accountable to special interests and political partisans instead of the law and the Constitution." But endorsed Democrat Seamus P. McCaffery, one of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidates, disagreed. He said a merit-based, governor's choice system like other states have for picking Supreme Court Justices would likely exclude "a poor guy like me who went to night school." Pennslyvania's Supreme Court election will be held Nov. 6, not Nov. 3 as reported earlier. Filed Under: State Supreme Courts Comments on this article
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