Cash Flows into State Judicial Races; What's Being Bought?

Stateline: Outside interest groups are pumping millions of dollars into state judicial races and already have influenced the outcome in Arkansas, West Virginia and Wisconsin, where voters elected supreme or lower-level appellate court justices this year.

The spending likely will continue at a breakneck pace in a handful of very competitive races that remain — especially in Kansas where years of conflict between the state Supreme Court and the executive and legislative branches is culminating in heated retention elections for four of the seven sitting justices.

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