Highlights from the studies detail a frightening and appalling picture. In a nutshell, business groups and conservative organizations with obfuscating names headquartered in Washington D.C. are dumping millions of dollars into the state judicial elections of several of our sister states. The object of the exercise is to elect justices who will vote in favor of business interests and to unseat justices who are considered “out of touch” with the agenda and political ideology of these organizations and groups. The Republican State Leadership Committee is the first national party organization which is focusing on electing judges. It was the biggest spender in North Carolina’s May Supreme Court primary elections. Assisted by the State Government Leadership Foundation and the Koch brothers affiliate, Americans for Prosperity, RSLC attempted to unseat three of Tennessee’s justices in an August election. Dark money dominated the Arkansas and Alabama supreme court elections. Koch Industries is one of the biggest donors to the RSLC. These various groups and organizations are inundating non-partisan judicial elections with staggering amounts of cash to accomplish their goals and to politicize otherwise non-partisan judicial races. And, unfortunately, it has been demonstrated that the amount of expenditures and contributions to judicial races correlates directly with how a benefiting justice votes on cases.