41.   That change would improve both the facilities and status of the Housing Court, and upgrade the range of judicial candidates.

42.   The ABA letter also said minority and women judicial candidates are being disproportionately affected.

43.   The Chamber advertised heavily in several states last year against judicial candidates it described as anti-business.

44.   The committee recommended that more teeth be put into campaign contribution limits imposed on judges and judicial candidates a few years ago.

45.   The contribution limits, as set out in law, vary according to the size of the geographic area from which the judge or judicial candidate is running.

46.   The distances are long, the constituencies are varied and judicial candidates pay the same rates for everything from media to gasoline in order to deliver their messages.

47.   The election system has been criticized because judicial candidates must raise campaign cash from the lawyers and business interests most likely to appear in their courts if elected.

48.   The money, in three payments over the last month, paid for television and radio advertisements for the three judicial candidates.

49.   The justices said states should sharply increase their efforts to provide voters with information about judicial candidates.

50.   The program certainly beefed up some campaign ads for Republican judicial candidates, but its overall significance may have been a matter of timing more than anything else.