Opinion by Katrina vanden Heuvel: While all eyes are on the confirmation hearings for President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, 86 state supreme court battles are quietly brewing across the country.
to state judicial elections in the 2019-2020 election cycle, the most since the center began tracking these numbers in 2000.ruling made it far easier for interest groups to spend on elections without disclosing their funding sources. As law professor and civil jury expert Stephan LandsmanThe result is mass corporate spending, often by the very institutions that are facing lawsuits over their harmful behavior.
In 2017, Alicia Bannon and her team at the Brennan Center for Justicethat poured into a race for a single seat on Louisiana's state Supreme Court. They traced much of that figure to “oil and gas companies and plaintiffs’ lawyers on opposite sides in lawsuits that will determine whether these companies will have to pay for environmental remediation due to past drilling.”This is particularly troubling as democracy’s future is adjudicated in state supreme courts.
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