Enacting public financing of state Supreme Court elections in West Virginia would declare loudly thatcourts...
"In too many states, judicial elections are becoming political prizefights where partisans and special interests seek to install judges who will answer to them instead of the law and the Constitution."
--Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
--Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
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