Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon says such hot button issues have prompted special interests to begin pouring money into the races. “They realize it’s in their interest to try to influence who’s going to sit on the Supreme Court, to have sympathetic justices who agree with their positions. It’s a much more open process now, to be more open about that partisanship than we had say, 20 years ago,” Canon says.
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