ABSTRACT
In the 2012 Michigan Supreme Court races, the Judicial Crisis Network ran a televised advertisement featuring the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, who found one of the candidates to be particularly troubling:
When I heard Bridget McCormack volunteered to represent and help free suspected terrorists, I couldn’t believe it. My son’s a hero and fought to protect us. Bridget McCormack volunteered to help free a terrorist. How could you?1
