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Alliance for Justice Joins Community and National Leaders in Calling for an End to the Obstruction of Judicial Nominees
05/08/12
Today marked an important milestone in the fight to confirm President Obama’s nominees to the federal courts. With the nation’s judicial system suffering from the cumulative effects of over three years of relentless Republican obstruction, community leaders and advocates from around the country met with White House officials to lend renewed vigor to an effort to end the destructive pattern of procedural delays that have left nearly one in ten federal judgeships without a judge.
Read More »Alliance for Justice Report Details President's First-Term Record on Judicial Nominations and Calls for End of Election-Year Obstruction
05/03/12
On the occasion of the end of the deal struck between Senate Democrats and Republicans to give final votes to 14 of President Obama’s judicial nominees by May 7, Alliance for Justice today released the latest in its series of reports on the severely dysfunctional judicial nominations process that has plagued this administration.
Read More »New Guide to Lobbying Recordkeeping Requirements from National Experts in Nonprofit Law
03/29/12
Alliance for Justice today released an important new resource designed to help public charities better understand and comply with federal tax law by tracking their lobbying activities. “Keeping Track: A Guide to Recordkeeping for Advocacy Charities” is an essential guide for managers, lawyers, and accountants, as well as for foundations that provide funding to advocacy organizations.
Read More »AFJ Mourns the Loss of John Payton, Tireless Advocate for Human and Civil Rights
03/23/12
With the heartbreaking death of John Payton, the nation has lost a brilliant, tireless, and effective fighter for civil rights and justice, while those of us who have had the privilege of working with him have lost a great friend and partner.
Read More »AFJ Condemns Vote in House of Representatives that Tears a Hole in the Civil Justice System and Harms American Families
03/23/12
The vote today in the House of Representatives in favor H.R. 5, the perversely named “Protecting Access to Healthcare Act,” is an affront to basic American standards of fairness and justice, and a declaration that the rights and lives of men, women, and children who have been injured or killed by medical malpractice and patient abuse are secondary to corporate profits.
Read More »AFJ Urges Congress to Preserve the Rights of Americans Harmed by Medical Providers
03/20/12
The so-called “Protecting Access to Healthcare Act” would fundamentally weaken every American’s legal rights the moment he or she walks into a hospital, checks into a nursing home, or picks up a prescription from the pharmacy. Alliance for Justice has joined with patient and consumer-rights groups to ask Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to oppose the bill, which is scheduled to come to the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday.
Read More »AFJ Disappointed by Senate's Return to Inadequate Confirmation Pace
03/15/12
We are disappointed by the United States Senate’s continued delay in carrying out its constitutional responsibility. With 102 vacancies in the federal courts, the Senate should make the staffing of the judiciary a priority. But as we saw yet again today, many in the Senate would rather turn a routine confirmation process into a political spectacle.
Read More »Alliance for Justice Calls for an End to Time-Wasting Filibusters and the Endless Logjam on Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
03/12/12
Today marks an important milestone in the seemingly endless process of confirming judges to the federal courts and alleviating the staffing crisis in our judicial system. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been forced to file time-consuming cloture petitions to end Republican filibusters on 17 nominees to the district courts, the vast majority of whom were approved unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee or with only token opposition.
Read More »AFJ Joins Members of Congress, Concerned Groups, Law Professors, and 100,000 Americans in Calling for Ethics Reform at the Supreme Court
03/07/12
Washington, D.C., March 6, 2012—Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron today joined three members of Congress, several concerned organizations, 212 law professors, and over 100,000 citizens in calling for the Supreme Court of the United States to voluntarily agree to formally adopt the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges and put an end to the ethical ambiguity that has damaged public confidence in the Court and its justices.
Read More »AFJ Releases Report on Human Rights Case to be Argued Before Supreme Court
02/27/12
As a service for those writing about human rights and corporate accountability cases, Alliance for Justice today released a report detailing the facts and far-reaching implications of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, one of the most important cases of the current Supreme Court term, and one that could have profound ramifications for those seeking to hold corporations accountable for wrongdoing.
Read More »AFJ Condemns Decision by Chief Justice Roberts to Refuse to Adopt Code of Conduct
02/22/12
Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and the American people that the Supreme Court of the United States, apparently alone among all institutions of American government, doesn’t need formally binding ethics rules and has no intention of adopting any. In a terse statement the Chief Justice flatly rejected a recommendation by Chairman Leahy and Senators Durbin, Whitehouse, Franken, and Blumenthal that the Court voluntarily, explicitly, and formally adopt the same Code of Conduct that governs every other federal judge.
Read More »AFJ Praises Senators for Calling for Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code
02/15/12
Alliance for Justice is extremely gratified that five members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have written to Chief Justice John Roberts to ask the Supreme Court to formally adopt the same Code of Conduct that applies to all other federal judges. This request echoes a similar one made in January by 11 national organizations, including Alliance for Justice, and is part of a growing groundswell of demands for reform of the Court’s approach to ethics, particularly in the wake of unresolved concerns about the behavior of some justices that seems to violate core principles embodied in the Code, including bans on political activity and prohibitions on active participation in fundraising.
Read More »AFJ Condemns Political Games Further Delaying the Confirmation of Judge Adalberto Jose Jordan to the 11th Circuit
02/14/12
After months of interminable, senseless delays by Republican senators, the nomination of Judge Adalberto José Jordán to a seat on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is now being forced to run a final gauntlet of obstruction and political posturing. The nomination of this uncontroversial, widely respected nominee with bipartisan support was subjected to a pointless filibuster that was broken last night in an overwhelming vote of 89-5. But rather than let the nomination proceed immediately to a final vote, a single Republican senator has invoked a rule that has forced the entire business of the Senate to come to a grinding halt for 30 hours until a vote on Judge Jordán must be held.
Read More »AFJ Releases Data on the Judicial Nominations Process During the First Three Years of the Obama Administration
01/26/12
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s demand in the State of the Union address “that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days,” Alliance for Justice today issued The State of the Judiciary: Judicial Nominations During the First Three Years of the Obama Presidency, a benchmark report detailing the reasons behind the current staffing crisis in the federal court system.
Read More »Alliance for Justice Calls on Chief Justice Roberts to Address Ethics Issues in His Annual State of the Judiciary Report
12/22/11
With the time fast approaching for your annual Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, I am writing on behalf of Alliance for Justice to respectfully urge you to take advantage of this important opportunity to address questions that have arisen about the ethical standards governing the Supreme Court. We, among many others, are growing increasingly concerned that the recent decline in public approval of the Court is due in part not only to the well-publicized and ethically questionable actions of some justices, but also to the lack of clear and unequivocal precepts governing justices’ behavior.
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