The targeting of state supreme courts by special interests and billionaires can leave the public with the impression that justices are no different than any politician: devoted to serving their political allies, court observers say. By @megomatz.bsky.social - ThreadSky

propublica.org • 9 hours ago

The targeting of state supreme courts by special interests and billionaires can leave the public with the impression that justices are no different than any politician: devoted to serving their political allies, court observers say.

By @megomatz.bsky.social

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johnsonaz.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Answer: yes (this is 1 article I don't have to read)

katbuns.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The patriarchy wasn’t going down without a fight, and they’re trying to take us down with them…

msneebo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Citizens United is what you're looking for.

rocksizedrock.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Everyone knows SCOTUS is now just a bunch of Right Wing bribe taking abusing their power cronies that no longer follow the US Constitution, and the State courts are no different.

mrkaswa.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The "impression"? 🙄

skyline4438.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They don't seem to be any different. In WI, the new justice is already being attacked by one of her colleagues. In NC, the court flipped parties and they decided to reverse the previous court out of nowhere.

dvbee.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Yup— this happens living under a dictator— those who remain silent are complicit.

zen1924.bsky.social•8 hours ago

At some point, if Drns ever get enough in the house and senate, we must pass a law that overturns Citizen United

carolmbraden.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Ohio.

marginalsc.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Well, yeah.

davidhayes1.bsky.social•9 hours ago

2 words Aileen Cannon

meanderlust.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They don’t care. They buy justices or undermine the system. They’re happy with either outcome.

fledg.bsky.social•9 hours ago

judges are politicians... particularly those on the US Supreme Court... and all the other courts... they got there via political parties & machinations

they don't become transfigured when they put on the black robes

but, wigs might do that🧐

rebochan.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I mean it worked on the highest court in the land soooooo

starttheheal.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Talk about inflationary! Forget the price of eggs - the cost of winning elections is going up & up. It is our money being spent on these obscene efforts at influence peddling. I'm happy for the outcome of this state supreme court election but I am not happy with the means of getting there.

gs-badger.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Thank goodness Federal judges are free of this type of grubby influence and never have to subject themselves to the indignity of public approval.

chicagochris50.bsky.social•9 hours ago

jeez, really, its almost like several of them have been bought and paid for, along side the fact the gop stole one, and they refuse ethics rules and oversight. I think the gop justices are corrupt thieves and a stain on america

crickstr.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Too late. We've seen what happened to the SCOUS.

thedigitalgazette.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It's Republicans that have undermined trust in state supreme courts. It's that simple - just say so.

cats-n-apples.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Well. Republican partisan judges at least

chapstickmamba.bsky.social•9 hours ago

What is stopping Democrats from proposing legislation that ends this? Challenge the Supreme Court to double down on Citizens United.

kkrober.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It definitely has in the Supreme Court! It has been defiled!

rp-vb.bsky.social•4 hours ago

📌

voline.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Which is objectively true.

waxchicken.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Um yeah because too many of them are POLITICAL HACKS!

jackjonesoak.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Isn’t that rather an apparent message coming from the nation’s highly compromised Supreme Court?

stellasapiente.bsky.social•8 hours ago

People have been paying attention. We know that judges can be just as partisan as any legislator. They're just better at arguing that they aren't.

1tfg.bsky.social•7 hours ago

We need to demand election reform. Get money out of politics!

thewhitebook.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It already happened with SCOTUS, no reason to believe the state courts are any different. It’s a rich man’s world and the rest of us are just cannon fodder.

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