Kentucky voters: McConnell supports Alcott so vote for Thompson

An online edition of Lexington Herald Leader helps clear up a few things about judicial races here in Kentucky:

With partisan push & abortion in focus, the stakes are high in KY’s supreme court races

If the vote on an anti-abortion constitutional amendment fails, all eyes will be on the Kentucky Supreme Court as it considers the merits of a lawsuit against the state’s near-total ban on abortion.

But first it has to get through its own ballot test on Nov. 8, where its makeup could change significantly depending on the results. And a major out-of-state conservative Super PAC is poised to try and steer the results in one direction.

Fair Courts America is targeting Northern Kentucky’s 6th Supreme Court district and near-Western Kentucky’s 2nd district, supporting two non-jurist candidates preferred by many in the state conservative establishment in those races. Between those two races and Franklin Circuit Court, it’s got $1.64 million to sling around, according to a strategy document that has was posted publicly on the PAC’s website and later taken down.

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Conservatives have easily taken hold of the state’s legislative levers of power, and in Fair Courts America as well as Fischer’s campaign tactics they appear poised to take a stab at further cementing power through the judiciary.

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