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Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tend to favor attorney donors

By Jake Harper | October 20, 2013

Justice Shirley Abrahamson was the top recipient of support from attorneys whose cases reached the Supreme Court, pulling in $188,650 over the past 11 years, a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism analysis shows. Overall, justices tended to rule in favor of clients whose attorneys contributed to the justices’ election campaigns.

Campaign Finance

Supreme Court justices and their attorney donors: About the analysis

By Jake Harper | October 20, 2013

How the Center analyzed the relationship between campaign finance data and Wisconsin Supreme Court case outcomes, and a summary of the main findings showing that justices tended to favor their attorney donors.

Government

Campaign financing dead in Wisconsin

By Bill Lueders | June 30, 2011

Gov. Scott Walker signed the budget June 26, effectively ending the state’s 33-year-old system of providing public funding to candidates who agree to abide by overall spending limits.

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Is money to blame for Supreme Court dysfunction?

By Bill Lueders | June 30, 2011

News of a physical altercation between two state Supreme Court justices has, ironically, brought the people of Wisconsin together. Everyone, it seems, agrees there is something terribly wrong with our state Supreme Court.

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