Wow, it turns my stomach to read this ugly aspect of that corporations-are-people decision by the Supreme Five:<\/p>\n
Surge of Last Minute Outside Spending Hits State Supreme Court Races | Brennan Center for Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another strategy in the Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy: buy legislators and, as a critical backstop, buy the judges who will determine the constitutionality of the laws those legislators pass.<\/p>\n In a way, it’s worse with judges, because most of us don’t have any immediate way of determining what judges to vote for, or even what those judges who are on a ballot represent. How do we voters evaluate judges? And since we can’t really know much about the judges running \u2212 certainly not the way we can learn about our legislators \u2212 a TV or radio ad can have a big impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, it turns my stomach to read this ugly aspect of that corporations-are-people decision by the Supreme Five: Surge of Last Minute Outside Spending Hits State Supreme Court Races | Brennan Center for Justice. Another strategy in the Koch Bros … Continue reading