Approximately $97 million was spent on state Supreme Court elections during the 2019-20 election cycle, according to the Brennan Center.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Republicans have claimed key victories in state Supreme Court races that will give them an advantage in major redistricting fights, while Democrats notched similarly significant wins with help from groups focused on defending abortion access.
The expensive fights over court control in several states in Tuesday's election highlight just how partisan the formerly low-key judicial races have become. Observers say they're a sign of what to expect as legal “Nothing about this election suggests to me that we’re going to see these races quiet down anytime soon," said Douglas Keith, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's law school, which tracks spending in judicial races.
North Carolina's court flipped from a 4-3 Democrat majority to 5-2 Republican on Tuesday night. The court in recent years has issued decisions favoring the Democratic majority in cases involving redistricting, criminal justice, education funding and voter ID laws. In Ohio, Republicans maintained their 4-3 majority on the court, with two GOP justices fending off challenges and a sitting Republican winning her bid for chief justice. The state's GOP governor, Mike DeWine, will appoint a justice to fill the resulting vacancy.
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