Dark Money’s New Frontier: State Judicial Elections

After the Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision unleashed unlimited money into election campaigns, right-wing millionaires used their cash to launch an attempted takeover of the presidency, congress, governorships, and state legislatures. Now they have set their sights on state judicial elections. They seek control over who becomes a state Supreme Court justice. Judges feel "trapped."

Dark Money’s New Frontier: State Judicial Elections (via Moyers & Company)

In America, we expect that our courts are fair and impartial — that their primary interest is to serve justice under the law. But increasingly, state high courts are falling prey to the same out-of-control, post-Citizens United election spending that…