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Do you want to help our excellent candidates, Joel Newby in Congressional District 15, Allison Russo in Ohio House District 24, Crystal Lett in State Senate District 16, and Supreme Court Justice candidate, Judge Jennifer Brunner?

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Justice Yvette McGee Brown

Candidate for Ohio Supreme Court.

Justice Brown is a long time advocate for children and families and helped establish the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.

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Opinion: Break up the one-party rule on the Ohio Supreme Court

 
 

A 2002 poll commissioned by the League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund found that 83% of voters believed that campaign contributions influence the decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Today, all seven Ohio Supreme Court justices are Republicans with little to check the excesses of one-party rule.

Newspaper articles and studies have pointed to a correlation between campaign contributions and the votes of members of the Ohio Supreme Court. The New York Times article “Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court’s Rulings” noted:

"An examination of the Ohio Supreme Court by The New York Times found that its justices routinely sat on cases after receiving campaign contributions from the parties involved or from groups that filed supporting briefs. On average, they voted in favor of contributors 70 percent of the time. Justice O’Donnell voted for his contributors 91 percent of the time, the highest rate of any justice on the court."

Under Ohio’s Code of Judicial Conduct (Canon 3), judges should disqualify themselves when they cannot perform their duties “impartially and diligently.” The NYTimes investigation found that Ohio Supreme Court judges almost never disqualified themselves from hearing their contributors cases:

"In the 12 years that were studied, the justices almost never disqualified themselves from hearing their contributors’ cases. In the 215 cases with the most direct potential conflicts of interest, justices recused themselves just 9 times."

2008 Judicial Candidates

UAPA does not endorse any candidates for judicial races, which are non-partisan. Below is a list of candidates. Whenever possible they are linked to their official Web sites or to information from the Ohio Board of Elections or the Columbus Dispatch.

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