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Judicial Selection
AFJ's Judicial Selection Project monitors and assesses federal judicial nominations to ensure our courts are staffed with highly-qualified judges that will safeguard the rights of all Americans... not just the privileged few.
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Voting Rights Act
When he signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson said, "This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. . . . Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify. The right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny." Yet today some still seek to deny these Americans the right to vote.
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Marriage Equality
The last time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a similar case about who can get married, it bent the arc of history toward justice, ruling that banning interracial marriage is unconstitutional. Now the Court has the opportunity to bend the arc of history toward justice again, by ruling for marriage equality.
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Fixing the Senate
We’ve written a lot about the failure of the United States Senate to confirm judges. But that failure is part of a wider failure – the failure of the Senate itself, brought on by the unprecedented misuse of arcane rules and procedures by the Republican minority.
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The Corporate Court
Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court is furthering a political agenda that consistently favors big corporations over average citizens. The Corporate Court has radically rewritten laws in order to shield big business from liability, insulate corporate interests from regulation, make it easier for companies to discriminate, and enabled powerful interests to flood our election process with special interest dollars.
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Supreme Court Ethics Reform
Holding the Supreme Court to a lower ethical standard undermines the Court’s appearance of independence and impartiality. That’s why AFJ is calling on Congress to step in and apply the same rules that apply to all other judges to the justices on the Supreme Court.
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Civil Justice
The Alliance for Justice believes in a fair, just, and free America where everyone has equal access to, and can fully participate in, our democracy. Our work on “access to justice” issues is aimed at protecting and strengthening America’s civil justice system, which provides a fair and balanced process by which everyday Americans can defend their rights and hold the most powerful interests accountable.
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Crude Justice
Alliance for Justice's short film Crude Justice examines the ongoing search for justice among the victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Shot on location in Louisiana, the film explores the damage done by this unimaginable environmental calamity to the lives and livelihoods of the people who depend on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for their income, their food, and the continuation of their culture.
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Citizens United: What Now?
In a sweeping decision in January 2010, the five conservative justices on the Supreme Court fundamentally changed the rules of the game when it comes to our nation’s elections. In this abrupt break from the past, the Roberts court bent over backwards to rehear this argument in order to reach a broad decision that overturns key campaign finance precedents and creates a major constitutional shift in campaign finance law.
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