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• Position: STATELINE - Judges and partisanship - Brief article

Partisanship is a fact of life in our politics, but in our courtrooms? A new study, "Partisan Justice," finds that judges are tapping into party-based fundraising and campaign networks to survive increasingly competitive elections. Researchers at Emory University School of Law collected 50-state data from more than 500 election cases between 2005 and 2014. Among the findings: Judges tend to favor litigants from their own...