“Courting Corruption: The Auctioning of the Judicial System”

Norm Ornstein writes in The Atlantic about the post-Citizens United world of judicial elections.  Judicial elections, he says, “are no way to select impartial and high-quality jurists.  But judicial elections in the age of Citizens United make it so much worse.  This will ultimately undermine the whole idea of an independent judiciary, which is the single most significant bedrock of a functioning democratic political system.”  There will be no “100-year flood” in California this year, but it might not be long until our luck runs out again.