Adam Bonin on judicial fundraising: "In the end, the problem isn’t so much with who’s making the ask as with its very existence."

INSIDE TAKE: End the Judicial Fundraising Charade

Let us demand real reforms, not fig leaves.

BY ADAM BONIN  |  JANUARY 20, 2015 AT 10:30 AM

"But this doesn’t, as the Florida Bar argues, avoid “the potential for quid pro quo corruption and the appearance of corruption by breaking the direct link between contributors and judicial candidates.” It just adds one more link to the chain.

In the end, the problem isn’t so much with who’s making the ask as with its very existence. There is no system in which attorneys and parties are funding the campaigns of the judges before whom they will appear which will be free from the potential for corruption."

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