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Douglas Keith

@douglaskeith.bsky.social

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@BrennanCenter.org, focus on courts + state constitutions. Co-founding editor @StateCourtReport.org. Dad.

Douglas Keith @douglaskeith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today, eight former New York State judges - including the state's former Chief Judge and Chief Admin Judge - filed an amicus brief defending New York's Protect Our Courts Act, a law prohibiting civil immigration arrests at state courthouses. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Douglas Keith @douglaskeith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

For the first time ever, interest groups spent more money in state supreme court elections than the candidates themselves – a trend that really picked up as a result of Citizens United

Graph showing the share of state supreme court election spending by interest groups in every electoral cycle since 2001. In 2001, outside spending accounted for 7.1% of all spending in judicial races, but in 2024 it accounted for 54.2%.

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Douglas Keith @douglaskeith.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Meanwhile, the conservative Citizens for Term Limits’ anti-retention ads say that “we must defend our democracy and three No votes will force an election. It is time to term limit the court.” 5/

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Douglas Keith @douglaskeith.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The messaging in the race says a lot about judicial politics today: PJF’s ads say the state supreme court is the “last line of defense” against attacks on abortion, which is legal in PA “thanks to Justices Donohue, Dougherty, & Wecht” 4/

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