Lake County League of Women Voters
Town Hall Meeting

May 14    7:00 
 Discussing
 Judicial Independence
Is Justice For Sale ?
Judge Mary DeGenaro, Speaker
Senior Center  
8484 Monssun Road
 Mentor , OH 44060
 
LWVCA, Taft Research Center & Common Cause
Invite you to a
TOWN HALL MEETING
Judicial Independence
Thursday May 15
12:30-2:00 P.M.
Taft Research Center
2526 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH
Lunch served 12:00-12:25
 
 
 
Click to see the new CIVICS CD
 

The Selling of the Judiciary: Campaign Cash ‘in the Courtroom’ - NY Times

By Dorothy Samuels

“We put cash in the courtrooms, and it’s just wrong,” Sandra Day O’Connor, the former Supreme Court justice, declared at the start of a conference in New York last week on a growing threat to judicial independence and integrity: the escalating millions that special interests are pouring into state judicial elections in an effort to buy favorable rulings.

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Thomas J. Moyer: Wisconsin has chance to improve faith in courts

Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer endorses Wisconsin's plan to establish a voluntary public financing system for races for the state's highest court and enhance public confidence in the judicial system.

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