Sentences with phrase «judicial campaign spending»
As judicial campaign spending increases, there is growing concern that judges step aside from hearing cases that involve campaign supporters or issues where the judge made a campaign pledge to rule a certain way once elected to the bench.
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Kraft Heinz and the Kraft Heinz PAC do not support Presidential campaigns, judicial candidates, super PACs or make contributions to independent expenditure committees, which is defined as money spent to support a political candidate, but not at the suggestion or request of the candidate, the candidate's authorized committee or a political party.
The petition sought to amend the recusal rules when a party in an action — or the lawyer or law firm in an action — makes a campaign contribution to or spends money in a judicial campaign for a judge presiding in the case.
Both parties saw judicial races as a means to get their political views entrenched as law, and between 1986 and 1996, spending for judicial campaigns increased 776 %.
SB 2238 Requires the judiciary, office of elections, and campaign spending commission to study appropriate methods of implementing a judicial election system in the State and submit a written report, including proposed legislation, to the legislature.
Thus, public financing does not cap spending nor guarantee a level playing field in judicial elections and is not a solution to issue - oriented campaigns.
Independent spending allows interest groups to circumvent campaign contribution limits, and if allowed to remain unchecked, they will continue to play a crucial role in judicial races.