You might have seen Norm Ornstein’s piece yesterday in The Atlantic about the concerted effort on the right to swing state judicial elections nationwide. Here’s one particularly telling example: $200,000 from a national GOP group dropped into a small county judicial race. There are only three judges in the county, and only one is a Democrat. Why would Republicans be focused on one Democratic judge? The county is where the state capital is located and that court hears a lot of key state government cases. The big mystery is who exactly ponied up the money that eventually made its way into this race. Dylan Scott reports.
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