Report: Midwest Courts Face More Special Interest Pressure

New Report Shows Rising Special Interest Pressure on Midwest Courts

New report from Justice at Stake: "A new report from Justice at Stake, The New Politics of Judicial Elections in the Great Lake States, 2000-2008, shows how the Midwest has become America’s leading judicial elections battleground. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin are seeing a growing arms race between corporate interests, trial lawyers, ideological groups and political partisans who are committed to bending state judges to their will."

Source: Law Librarian Blog

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