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Public Funding Of Judicial Campaigns: The North Carolina Experience, Paul D. Carrington

Paul D. Carrington

This addresses the constitutional crises created in numerous states by Supreme Court decisions bearing on campaign finance and professional ethics of judges. North Carolina was the first state to employ public financing of judicial campaigns. This is an account of how that came to be and an evaluation of the North Carolina experience that may be especially instructive to those states that have recently enacted similar laws, most recently Wisconsin and West Virginia.