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Billy Corriher

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Billy Corriher is the state courts manager for the People's Parity Project, which works to build a justice system that values people over profits. He has written about these issues for ThinkProgress, Slate, The Hill, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, FacingSouth.org, Newsweek and the Raleigh News & Observer. From 2012 to 2017, he worked on issues around judges and judicial nominations at the Center for American Progress. He is the author of Usurpers: How Voters Stopped the GOP Takeover of North Carolina’s Courts, published in 2021.

Corriher earned his bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his law degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Across the country, legislators are trying to gain more control over their states' courts. Many of the efforts are from Republicans aiming to diminish the role of judicial nominating commissions.
Millions of dollars were spent on races for the Michigan, Ohio and Illinois high courts. The elections could impact a host of cases.
In recent years, Republican-led legislatures have been adding state supreme court seats and working to change nominating rules, aiming to bolster conservative majorities.