Prof. Painter Quoted in National Law Journal About Judicial Campaign Spending Rulings

Professor Richard Painter was quoted in The National Law Journal, about the inconsistency of two recent rulings by the U. S. Supreme Court on campaign spending. Painter who writes about judicial campaign spending, points out in the article that one ruling states that campaign contributions to judges can require recusal, and the ruling in another case, that corporations have virtually unlimited "free speech" rights to spend money on elections. "I think a lot of states may just throw their hands up and say, 'It's impossible to come up with a [recusal] rule that really works.' "