« About this Blog - Notable items concerning the ILB | Main | Ind. Courts - "Indiana high court retained by voters" »
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Courts - "An 'Orgy of Negativity' in Michigan Judicial Race"
Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports today in a story that begins:
Michigan's Supreme Court race has turned into the nation's nastiest judicial campaign, according to a nonpartisan organization that monitors judicial races.Bert Brandenburg, executive director of the Justice at Stake Campaign, said recent and numerous television ads in the race between Republican Chief Justice Cliff Taylor and his Democratic challenger, longtime trial judge Diane Hathaway, have created an "orgy of negativity."
The ads have depicted Taylor as asleep on the bench and a "good soldier" of big business, and Hathaway as a goldbricking, terrorist sympathizer who gives light sentences to sexual predators, according to Brandenburg.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 4, 2008 04:40 PM
Posted to Courts in general