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Last week, we wrote about the amount of money spent during the recent judicial election season on television ads, both by the candidates and by third parties.  Now, FactCheck.org breaks down the elections by focusing on some of the most controversial ads of the season:

Another election, another set of bare-fisted battles for state Supreme Court seats.  Think the presidential campaign ads were uncivil and misleading?  Well. . . they were.  But so were those put on the air by judicial candidates and their backers, who no longer blink at spending in the millions of dollars.

FactCheck.org looks at ads from the Supreme Court races in Missiissippi and Michigan, analyzing the claims made in the ads and calling out the misstatements and questionable claims.

Should millions of dollars and misleading ads be the hallmarks of judicial selection or is there a better way to choose appellate judges?

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