McCormack, Bridget

===wiki<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;">Bridget Mary McCormack is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Michigan_Supreme_Court" title="List of Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Justice</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Supreme_Court" title="Michigan Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan Supreme Court</a>, a position she has held since January 1, 2013. Prior to her election, she was a professor at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan_Law_School" title="University of Michigan Law School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Michigan Law School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,Michigan" title="Ann Arbor, Michigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ann Arbor</a>. She taught criminal law and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_ethics" title="Legal ethics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">legal ethics</a> and oversaw the law school's clinical programs as associate dean of clinical affairs. Her academic work focused on practical experience in legal education.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Bio-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a>McCormack launched and worked in a pediatric advocacy law clinic focusing on children with health problems, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">domestic violence</a> clinic. She is founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michigan_Innocence_Clinic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michigan Innocence Clinic (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan Innocence Clinic</a>, the first innocence clinic in the country that exclusively handles non-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_evidence" class="mw-redirect" title="DNA evidence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DNA evidence</a> cases.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Bio-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Shahin-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a>In November 2012, she was elected a justice of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Supreme_Court" title="Michigan Supreme Court" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Michigan Supreme Court</a>, to replace <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Kelly" class="mw-redirect" title="Marilyn Kelly" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Marilyn Kelly</a>, who was retiring from the bench.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Bio-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a> McCormack resigned from her position at the university before joining the Court.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Shahin-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> McCormack is considered a liberal.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Shahin-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Her campaign for Supreme Court was endorsed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Democratic_Party" title="Michigan Democratic Party" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Michigan Democratic Party</a>, although Michigan supreme court elections are officially nonpartisan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-West-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" id="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#Education_and_background" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Education and background</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#Professional_activities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2Professional activities</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#Michigan_Supreme_Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3Michigan Supreme Court</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Education and background[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_Mary_McCormack&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education and background" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>McCormack went to high school in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_New_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Central New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">central New Jersey</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> She received her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> with honors in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">political science</a> and philosophy from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College(Connecticut)" title="Trinity College (Connecticut)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Trinity College</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Connecticut</a> in 1988. She received her J.D. from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_School_of_Law" title="New York University School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York University School of Law</a>, where she was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root-Tilden_Scholarship" title="Root-Tilden Scholarship" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Root-Tilden Scholar</a>, in 1991.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Bio-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a>McCormack started her legal career in New York, first as trial counsel at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Aid_Society" title="Legal Aid Society" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Legal Aid Society</a> and then at the Office of the Appellate Defender. She taught at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Yale Law School</a> in New Haven, Connecticut as a Robert M. Cover Fellow from 1997-98. She joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1998,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Shahin-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> and became associate dean of clinical affairs in 2003.<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Professional activities[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_Mary_McCormack&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Professional activities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>As associate dean for clinical affairs at the law school, McCormack supervised students in complex federal litigation in the general clinical program. McCormack also worked to expand Michigan Law School's clinical offerings during her tenure.In 2008, McCormack founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michigan_Innocence_Clinic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michigan Innocence Clinic (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Michigan Innocence Clinic</a>, which is the nation's first exclusively non-DNA innocence clinic.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a> As of September 22, 2012, the Michigan Innocence Clinic has exonerated five innocent people who were wrongfully convicted.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a>McCormack has published articles on constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and legal ethics.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-UMichBio-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a> McCormack serves on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Law_Schools" title="Association of American Law Schools" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Association of American Law Schools</a> Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. In 2008, she testified before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_City_Council" title="Detroit City Council" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Detroit City Council</a> about its investigation of the city attorney's role in the case involving former Detroit Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick" title="Kwame Kilpatrick" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kwame Kilpatrick</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-UMichBio-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Michigan Supreme Court[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_Mary_McCormack&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Michigan Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 2012, McCormack won election to the Michigan Supreme Court.McCormack's campaign included a campaign advertisement encouraging voters to complete the non-partisan section of the ballot, where seats such as the one she was running for are listed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[11]</a> The campaign advertisement featured a reunion of much of the principal cast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing" title="The West Wing" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The West Wing</a>, including McCormack's sister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McCormack" title="Mary McCormack" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Mary</a>. During the campaign, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Crisis_Network" title="Judicial Crisis Network" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Judicial Crisis Network</a> released an ad claiming that McCormack had "volunteered to help free a terrorist" when she represented accused mercenary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdumuqit_Vohidov" title="Abdumuqit Vohidov" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Abdumuqit Vohidov</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Rosenthal" title="Andrew Rosenthal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Rosenthal</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The New York Times</a> criticized the ad as exploitative, pointing out that Vohidov was released by a non-judicial board and questioning whether he should be described as a "terrorist".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-NYTimes2012-11-01-12" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">[12]</a>McCormack and incumbents <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Markman" title="Stephen Markman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Stephen Markman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Zahra" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Zahra" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brian Zahra</a> were elected on November 6, 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-Lsj2012-11-07-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_Mary_McCormack&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>McCormack's father is a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Marine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Marine</a> and retired small business owner, and her mother is a clinical social worker. McCormack's sister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McCormack" title="Mary McCormack" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mary McCormack</a>is an actress, known for her role as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Harper(The_West_Wing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kate Harper (The West Wing)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kate Harper</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NBC</a> series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing" title="The West Wing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The West Wing</a>, as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stern" title="Howard Stern" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Howard Stern</a>'s wife in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Parts(1997_film)" title="Private Parts (1997 film)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Private Parts</a> and her lead role as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shannon" title="Mary Shannon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mary Shannon</a>on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">USA Network</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Plain_Sight" title="In Plain Sight" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">In Plain Sight</a>. Her brother, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_McCormack" title="Will McCormack" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Will McCormack</a>, is an actor and screenwriter.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-West-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a>McCormack is married to University of Michigan Law School professor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_P.Croley" title="Steven P. Croley" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Steven P. Croley</a>, currently on leave serving in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama Administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Obama Administration</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">deputy White House counsel</a>. The couple has four children.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_note-West-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_Mary_McCormack&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Bio-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-Bio_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; 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padding-right: 13px;">Faculty Bio: Bridget Mary McCormack</a>, University of Michigan Law School.</li><li id="cite_note-Shahin-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-Shahin_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-Shahin_2-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-Shahin_2-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-Shahin_2-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">d</a> Peter Shahin & Haley Goldberg, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.michigandaily.com/news/11supreme-court-results-still-undecided7" style="text-decoration: none; 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padding-right: 13px;">How Michigan judicial candidate Bridget Mary McCormack got ‘The West Wing’ cast for her campaign video</a> (Sep. 20, 2012). Washington Post.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Rob Trucks, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/post/bridget-mary-and-mary-mccormack" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Bridget Mary and Mary McCormack: The Rhapsody Interview</a>, Rhapsody.com (Oct. 29, 2012).</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Mary_McCormack#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Munslow, Amy (18 February 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://michigandaily.com/content/2009-02-19/universitys-innocence-clinic-helps-prisoners" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); 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JCN wanted state scotus in WI and MI (koch govs)

The lower court money bomb

While turning, and keeping, the Wisconsin court conservative was a high priority for JCN and others on the right, the group didn’t spend much cash there directly. But the opposite was true in neighboring Michigan, where JCN laid out more than $2 million on two 2012 court races. About half the money went to an effort to keep law professor Bridget McCormack from sitting on the state Supreme Court, including a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6twOgKpiXbs" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">last-minute ad</a> accusing McCormack of volunteering to represent terrorists, featuring the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. (McCormack did volunteer one of her law school clinics to represent a Guantanamo detainee, though he was released before the students communicated with him.)

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/03/the-jcn-story-building-a-secretive-gop-judicial-machine/

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Daily Beast: "JCN's Modus Operandi And Battlegrounds Have Shifted -- Particularly Since Barack Obama Won The White House." Viveca Novak and Peter Stone wrote in The Daily Beast that JCN "shifted" its operations when a Democrat took over the White House:

The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN), set up as a 501(c)(4) "social welfare" group that doesn't disclose its donors, would prove to be a crucial player in drumming up support for Bush Supreme Court nominees John Roberts Jr. and Samuel Alito Jr. -- eventual allies for Scalia on the Court's right flank.

In the years since, JCN's modus operandi and battlegrounds have shifted -- particularly since Barack Obama won the White House, which prompted the group to sound the alarm and change its name to the Judicial Crisis Network. In the ensuing years, not only has it fought to block Obama's nominees to the high court, but it has spent millions to sway state judicial elections and attorneys general races, helping to uphold state laws backed by conservatives, nurture like-minded talent in the states, and advance pro-business, limited-government legal agendas aligned with its donors' leanings. [The Daily Beast, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/23/the-jcn-story-how-to-build-a-secretive-right-wing-judicial-machine.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/23/15</a>]

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<h2 style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reporters On JCN Michigan Ad: "McCarthyist," "Flagrant Foul," And "Cynical Manipulation"</h2>

JCN Released An Ad Accusing Court Candidate Of Volunteering "To Help Free A Terrorist." JCN reportedly spent roughly $1 million on an ad attacking Michigan Supreme Court candidate Bridget McCormack, who was backed by Democrats and went on to win the race. The ad features Michigan woman Teri Johnson, whose son was killed in Afghanistan, stating: "My son's a hero and fought to protect us. Bridget McCormack volunteered to help free a terrorist. How could you?" [YouTube.com, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6twOgKpiXbs" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">10/30/12</a>; Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/06/national-review-online-smears-michigan-supreme/191181" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11/6/12</a>; MLive.com, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/conservative_judicial_group_ru.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">10/30/12</a>]

NY Times' Rosenthal: "McCarthyist" Ad Was Misleading. Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor of The New York Times, criticized the "McCarthyist" ad for "shamelessly exploit[ing]" the death of a soldier and falsely attacking McCormack:

An ad paid for by the group with undisclosed donations shamelessly exploits the tragedy of the death of a young soldier in Afghanistan, Joseph Johnson - with the help of his mother, Teri. "My son is a hero and fought to protect us," she says in the ad. "Bridget McCormack volunteered to help free a terrorist. How could you?"

That's easy to answer. She didn't. Ms. Johnson may not know that, but the Republican activists who paid for the ad surely do.

Ms. McCormack, a law professor at the University of Michigan, was part of a legal network called the Center for Constitutional rights, which coordinated efforts by American lawyers to represent Guantanamo detainees - most of whom were found to be improperly detained and released. Their goal was not to "free terrorists," but to ensure that American prisoners were entitled to the rights and representation provided under international and American law. The Supreme Court affirmed those rights on more than one occasion.

The prisoner Ms. McCormack represented, Wahldof Abdul Mokit, was in fact released from Guantanamo in 2007 - by a military tribunal under a process created by the Bush administration - not by Ms. McCormack. He was sent back to his native Tajikistan, where he was arrested and sentenced for being a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. [NYTimes.com, <a href="http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/everyone-deserves-legal-representation/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/1/12</a>]

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Michigan Outlet: "Flagrant Foul" And "Cynical Manipulation." The Center for Michigan's Bridge Magazine criticized JCN's ad as committing a "flagrant foul," concluding that it is "a cynical manipulation of individually correct facts to create the most unflattering image of a candidate. ... The tone of the ad says far more about the people who funded and crafted it than it does about the candidate it tries to attack." [MLive.com, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/11/truth_squad_calls_flagrant_fou_1.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/5/12</a>]

Detroit Free Press Criticizes Ad: "Claim Ignores The U.S. Rule Of Law." Detroit Free Press reporter Paul Egan criticized the ad in a piece headlined, "She tried to 'help free a terrorist'? Claim ignores the U.S. rule of law." He added: "No crimes -- no matter how heinous -- should be attributed to attorneys who help assure that the constitutional and international legal rights of accused people are observed." [Detroit Free Press, 11/4/12, via Nexis]

<h2 style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; 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; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/16/16</a>]

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