Arkansas justice says she voted against raise mailer cites

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ An Arkansas Supreme Court justice says she voted
against a pay raise request cited in an outside group’s attack mailer that she’s
trying to get a federal judge to halt.

Justice Courtney Goodson testified Wednesday she was one of two justices who voted privately against the $18,000 raise the court’s chief justice requested from a panel that sets officials’ salaries. The panel rejected the request and instead raised justices’ pay 2 percent, giving her a $3,330 raise. Goodson has previously declined to say how she voted on the request.

Goodson sued the Republican State Leadership Committee’s Judicial Fairness
Initiative over the mailer and a TV ad attacking her over donor gifts.

A federal judge says he’ll rule by Thursday morning on whether to halt the
mailer and ad.

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