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<h2 style="font-size: 1em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; color: rgb(0, 153, 255); clear: both; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JCN Behind Campaign That's "Grotesquely Distorting" Arkansas Supreme Court Justice's Record</h2>JCN Behind Campaign Attacking Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Candidate For Voter ID Decision. JCN has been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to oppose Justice Courtney Goodson in her race for Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice. A JCN mailer attacked Goodson for striking down the state's 2013 voter ID law, claiming she's opening the door to "Illegal Immigrants Voting," "Election Theft," and "Widespread Voter Fraud." [Arkansas Times, <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/02/16/new-dark-money-ads-attack-justice-goodson-for-supreme-courts-unanimous-decision-invalidating-arkansas-voter-id-law" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/16/16</a>]        JCN's Suggestions About Voter ID Laws Are False. JCN is repeating frequent right-wing media claims in support of voter ID laws. In reality, there is no evidence of massive voter impersonation fraud that would result in "Illegal Immigrants Voting" and "Election Theft." Furthermore, there are "mountains of evidence" that voter ID laws can be racially discriminatory and disenfranchise voters. [Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/10/30/debunking-the-conservative-medias-2014-voter-fr/201382" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/30/14</a>] Arkansas Times: JCN Is "Grotesquely Distorting A Candidate's Record." Arkansas Times reporter Benjamin Hardy strongly criticized the JCN mailing, writing at the Times' Arkansas Blog:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These assertions are based on the fact that in 2014, the Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously struck down a 2013 voter ID law narrowly passed by the legislature. All seven justices agreed the law was unconstitutional; evidently, the entire court was a hotbed of liberal activism.[...]This is foul stuff, even by the standards of outside spending in elections. Grotesquely distorting a candidate's record? Check. Demonizing immigrants? Check. Cynically injecting a dog whistle partisan issue into a judicial race? Check. Fabricating a linkage to Obama out of thin air? Check.[...]Arkansans might be surprised to learn that Goodson -- who is lately touting her endorsement from the National Rifle Association, an unusual occurrence in a judicial race -- is an activist liberal judge. [Arkansas Times, <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/02/16/new-dark-money-ads-attack-justice-goodson-for-supreme-courts-unanimous-decision-invalidating-arkansas-voter-id-law" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/16/16</a>]</blockquote>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Mailer "Didn't Mention" Decision Was Unanimous. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette noted that the JCN mailer left out context about the voter ID ruling, reporting:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of the mailings criticizes Goodson for her role in striking down the state's 2013 voter-ID law. The mailer also linked her to President Barack Obama's "Liberal Agenda" in Arkansas.What the mailer from the Judiciary Crisis Network didn't mention is that the decision to strike down the state's voter-ID law was unanimous. Goodson was one of seven justices who all agreed that the 2013 voter-ID law amounted to another qualification on voting, and since such qualifications are set in the state constitution, the law was thus unconstitutional. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/feb/19/ad-costs-near-1m-in-chief-justice-race-/" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/19/16</a>]</blockquote>