This morning, the Charleston Gazette clearly mischaracterized the circumstances surrounding the 2004 state Supreme Court election. In its editorial on ugly campaigning, the Gazette attempted to downplay the fact that former Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw voted for a plan which would have released a convicted sex offender and placed him to work in a local high school. A court of law later found the telivision advertisements that the Gazette complains of to be factually true.

Click here to read the opinion for yourself!

Also, check out Justice Robin Davis’ critical dissent in the case.

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