Justice for sale? More money flowing to judicial elections

North Carolina in April isn’t usually the focus of much political activity, but that changed this year when viewers around the state started seeing this TV ad.

Until that point, state Supreme Court judge Robin Hudson had been used to judicial elections that many described as “sleepy,” where it was as much work mobilizing people to vote at all as it was mobilizing them to vote a certain way.

Then the ad aired, accusing Hudson of being “not tough on child molesters,” and what had traditionally been a quiet and personalized judicial election for North Carolina changed to a loud and partisan one. And it may have changed judicial elections in the state forever.

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