AFJ in the News

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Cornelia “Nina” Pillard for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  On Thursday, the committee voted 10-8, along party lines, advancing Pillard’s nomination to the full Senate.

Those defrauded by Bank of America aren’t allowed to file a collective complaint thanks to a 2011 Supreme Court ruling.

More than 100 women’s reproductive rights supporters on Saturday stood in solidarity with Jackson Women’s Health Organization with a rally in advance of a trial next spring.

The Alliance for Justice says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg got it right when she recently called the current Supreme Court “one of the most activist courts in history.”

A year-long string of controversial cases the general public couldn’t see at all, or hear until later, has increased pressure on the Supreme Court to consider lifting the veil on its proceedings.

A group of Democratic lawmakers last week reintroduced legislation requiring U.S. Supreme Court justices to adopt and follow a code of ethics similar to that of federal judges.

The Internal Revenue Service’s clumsy handling  of applications for social welfare status in 2012 has triggered a rash of fevered responses along with some serious policy proposals.

A secret court comprised of judges picked by one individual is problematic enough when that court rules on individual surveillance applications. But for such a court to be developing an entire body of law, impacting millions of Americans, outside of its statutory jurisdiction is even more disconcerting.  

Earlier stories featuring Alliance for Justice in the news.

The dark saga of the Department of Justice “torture memos” took a disturbing turn for the worse last week. For five years, we’ve waited for the report from the Department of Justice’s internal ethics investigation of the government lawyers, John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury, who authored the infamous memos providing legal cover for abusive interrogation techniques that violated the absolute ban on torture under U.S. and international law. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Eric Holder said the report would be released by the end of November.