Millionaire Campaign Donor Could Singlehandedly Kill North Carolina’s Public Financing for Judicial Races

Millionaire Campaign Donor Could Singlehandedly Kill North Carolina’s Public Financing for Judicial Races: pFor nearly ten years, North Carolina’s judicial elections have been spared the multi-million-dollar slugfests that have swamped other states. Rather than relying on wealthy campaign contributors, appellate court candidates had access to public financing for their campaigns. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling made the program’s “matching” funds unconstitutional, and the 2012 N.C. high court [...]/p