Conservative Cancer Killing our Courts.

Republicans used to attack the courts and judges that ruled against them, charging judges of liberal activism. You don’t hear that much anymore for a reason; they've taken over the courts.

So this is what they call freedom and liberty? This report says it all:

The report was released by the Justice at Stake Campaign, the Brennan Center for Justice and the National Institute for Money in State Politics.

“In Wisconsin and elsewhere, we saw a withering assault on fair courts,” said Bert Brandenburg, executive director of the nonpartisan Justice at Stake Campaign. “These weren’t isolated proposals. The same special interests that have poured money into court elections used state legislatures to mount a national attack on impartial justice.” Wisconsin’s decision this year to jettison public financing of judicial elections was part of an unprecedented national attack on state courts that followed the 2010 judicial and legislative elections “legislatures across the country unleashed a ferocious round of attacks against impartial justice,” the report says, and a campaign to roll back public financing was part of the siege. “The story of the 2009-10 elections, and their aftermath in state legislatures in 2011, reveals a coalescing national campaign that seeks to intimidate America’s state judges into becoming accountable to money and ideologies instead of the constitution and the law,” warns the report, entitled “The New Politics of Judicial Elections: 2009-2010.”

The legislative attacks likely will continue into 2012, says the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.