From Law.com (thanks to Mike McBride again!):

Michigan’s Supreme Court race has turned into the nation’s nastiest judicial campaign, according to a nonpartisan organization that monitors judicial races.

Bert Brandenburg, executive director of the Justice at Stake Campaign, said recent and numerous television ads in the race between Republican Chief Justice Cliff Taylor and his Democratic challenger, longtime trial judge Diane Hathaway, have created an “orgy of negativity.”

The ads have depicted Taylor as asleep on the bench and a “good soldier” of big business, and Hathaway as a goldbricking, terrorist sympathizer who gives light sentences to sexual predators, according to Brandenburg.
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