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Loyalty Litmus: The First Year of Trump 2.0’s Federal Courts Loyalty Litmus: The First Year of Trump 2.0’s Federal Courts A new report from Alliance for Justice, Loyalty Litmus: The First Year of Trump 2.0’s Federal Courts, illustrates how Trump’s judicial nominees have been just as lacking in diversity as those from his first term, but their extremism has greatly increased.
Labor & Economic Justice Factsheet Labor & Economic Justice Factsheet Trump-appointed judges vote for corporations and against working people.
Democracy & Voting Rights Factsheet Democracy & Voting Rights Factsheet Trump judges have weakened our democracy by siding with those who seek to undermine democratic representation and limit voting rights.
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