<p>Most of Georgia's district attorneys have endorsed a challenger for the state Supreme Court, Grant Brantley, his campaign announced Thursday.</p><p>Brantley is attempting to knock off incumbent Justice Leah Ward Sears, who would become the court's first female black chief justice if re-elected.</p><p>Earlier this week, Sears was endorsed by the Georgia Association of Educators.</p><p>Brantley and many other state Republicans have called Sears too liberal. Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, during a Christian Coalition rally earlier this year, urged voters not to re-elect Sears.</p><p>The Sears-Brantley race, which will be decided July 20 in a nonpartisan contest, is thought to be the most expensive and high-profile court race in state history.</p><p>Brantley's campaign said Thursday that 30 of 49 state district attorneys have endorsed Brantley. Most of the DAs behind Brantley come from rural or suburban Atlanta areas.</p><p>The DAs fell short of directly criticizing Sears, following the historical decorum of justicial races.</p><p>But one of the DAs, the Southern Judicial Circuit's David Miller, said in a statement that Brantley would "better reflect the values of the majority of the people of Georgia."</p><p>Sears has been targeted by conservatives in part for being part of the majority that threw out Georgia's anti-sodomy law in 1998. Sears and other justices ruled that the sodomy ban was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.</p>
