The Senate Republican leadership is attempting to ram through two of President Trump’s most troubling judicial nominations during the lame-duck session, when they think few Americans are watching.
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Judicial Nominees
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Over the past several decades, a conservative-led campaign has eviscerated the ability of Americans to have their day in court.
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AFJ: Griffin Strengthened HRC, Improved Lives
Alliance for Justice is honored to have worked in partnership with Chad Griffin, a tireless champion for the rights and dignity of all people.
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GOP assault on the courts continues
In case you harbored any illusions that the national outcry against Brett Kavanaugh might have done something to shame the Trump administration and/or its accomplices on Capitol Hill with respect to elevating extreme right-wing ideologues to the federal courts and abandoning traditional legislative process in doing so, think again.
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Mass protests follow Trump’s firing of Sessions; demand hands off Mueller!
In a situation rife with irony – given Jeff Sessions’s past record on voting rights, voter suppression and against workers’ rights – citizen groups called mass protests for 5 p.m. local time, coast to coast, on Nov. 8 against President Donald Trump’s arbitrary firing of Sessions, his Attorney General. They said it’s a Trump attempt to derail or cover up Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of criminal activity by Trump and his associates in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The Cruelty of Brett Kavanaugh
On September 27, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s credible sexual assault allegations against him. Since that hearing, much of the focus has been on Kavanaugh’s blatant lies. But Kavanaugh’s performance also laid bare what many had already known: Brett Kavanaugh acts cruelly toward those outside of his elite circle of friends and colleagues. In fact, Kavanaugh’s lack of empathy appears to extend to anyone without a country club membership. It is a central character trait – he has repeatedly demonstrated, throughout his life, a callousness that has no place on our highest court.
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We’ve Been Here Before
On Friday, the Trump Administration’s instructions to the FBI proved that we are about to repeat the mistakes of the past. The similarities between Trump’s apparent sham investigation of Brett Kavanaugh and the investigation of Clarence Thomas are striking.
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Trump’s Boomerang
Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general may have strengthened Robert Mueller’s position as special counsel. Each new revelation establishing Whitaker’s unfitness for the AG post generally, and his bias regarding Mueller’s investigation specifically, diminishes Whitaker’s and Trump’s ability to obstruct the investigation. Because Trump so obviously selected Whitaker because of his willingness to tank the investigation, as shown by Whitaker’s public statements, all eyes are on Whitaker, alert for the slightest move to curtail Mueller’s work.
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Trump Picks His Protector
Jeff Sessions’s long expected departure arrived the day after Trump’s electoral thumping. The timing of the announcement deflected attention from Trump’s defeat and ensured fresh supervision for Robert Mueller before he could break his election hiatus with new public actions. Any possible doubt that Trump orchestrated Sessions’s removal to curtail Mueller’s investigation was removed by his appointment of Matthew Whitaker, an outspoken TV talking head opponent of the investigation, as acting attorney general. Trump’s action accelerates our slow-moving constitutional crisis.
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Bolder Advocacy: “The Connection” New Edition Is Vital Guide for Nonprofits In Election Year
Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program is excited to announce the fourth edition of “The Connection: Strategies for Creating and Operating 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s and Political Organizations,” its comprehensive guide for nonprofits that want to engage in assertive advocacy for their causes while staying in compliance with tax and campaign finance rules. This fourth edition of the guide is especially timely, as it sets out how 501(c)(4)s and political organizations can get involved in the upcoming midterm elections.
