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August 20, 2010

Report: Donations Surge to Sway Judicial Elections
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A new report says corporate and special interest groups have poured
record amounts of money into judicial campaigns to influence the
decisions of top state courts. According to the Justice at Stake
Campaign, donations to state judicial campaigns more than doubled over
the past decade to $206 million. By 2009, more than half of television
ads used in the campaigns were paid for by third parties.



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