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In its report on today’s oral argument in Caperton v. Massey, ABC News offers this nugget:

Citing the amount of money Blankenship raised for the ad campaign to elect Benjamin, the timing of his case, and Blankenship’s central role in the proceeding, Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer said, “all of those things make a serious risk of bias. . . you put it together, and it spells trouble.”

Justice Breyer perfectly summed up the problem with money being part of the judicial selection process — it just adds up to trouble.

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