Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed new legislation in November that bans Illinois judicial candidates from receiving campaign cash from out-of-state contributors and groups with donor privacy policies.
The law targeting so-called “dark money” groups preempts a fierce 2022 election cycle that will see four judicial seats up for consideration and ultimately determine the balance of power on the Illinois’ Supreme Court in the coming decade.
It also arrives in the wake of a record-breaking 2020 retention election that saw Republican donors and business interests unseat Democratic Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride. The retention referendum was the most expensive in U.S. history and marks the first time Illinois voters have unseated a justice since retention elections were adopted in 1964.
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