Confirming Daniel Bress adds an anti-worker, anti-consumer voice to that bench — over the strong objections of both California senators, Sens. Feinstein and Harris, who note that this California seat is going to a DC-based lawyer with few ties to their state.
After Kavanaugh:
A Conversation with Debra Katz
& Ana María Archila
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AFJ: Future of ACA at Mercy of Court System Stacked by Trump
This case, in which tens of millions of lives literally hang in the balance, illustrates two critical points about what is going on in our justice system today. The first is that courts really, really matter to all of us more than at almost any other time we can think of. The second is that the Trump Administration is so clearly using the courts to achieve policy objectives it can’t achieve legislatively.
AFJ in the News
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Donald Trump and the Plot to Take Over the Courts
Trump’s Court—the collection of judges and justices now swarming our judicial system, nominated and confirmed to lifetime appointments on his recommendation—will linger. Trump’s appointees now account for some 14 percent of the federal judiciary and more than 22 percent of the judges on the nation’s courts of appeal—and he has been in office for just two and a half years. Many of Trump’s other offenses could be overturned by a new president with the stroke of a pen. Trump’s Court will remain as his legacy.
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Dems Call for Names of Conservative Dark Money Group Donors
Senate Democrats will press conservative dark money group Judicial Crisis Network on Wednesday to release the names of its donors, after the group ran an ad campaign demanding 2020 Democrats release a secret “list” of liberal judicial nominees that doesn’t actually exist.
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Our Common Quest for Autonomy and Dignity: Reproductive Rights and LGBTQ Equality
By Julianna S. Gonen, National Center for Lesbian Rights Many in the LGBTQ community are watching in horror as state after state enacts draconian bans on abortion in what seems like a competition with one another to see which can go farthest in its legislative assault on reproductive freedom. But if any of us have… Read more »
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Our Active Servicemembers Deserve Better
In 2003, Air Force Sgt. Dean Witt had a routine appendectomy at Travis Air Force Base. Tragically, after the procedure, Witt’s nurse administered a lethal dose of fentanyl and incorrectly inserted a breathing tube into his esophagus, depriving his brain of oxygen. Witt was left in a vegetative state for three months until his wife, Alexis, decided to have her husband’s feeding tube removed. The same nurse was linked to at least three other deaths, including the death of another airman just a year prior to Witt’s death.
In any other circumstance, Mrs. Witt would be able to hold accountable those whose negligence caused her husband’s death. However, because of a nearly 70-year-old Supreme Court decision that prohibits active duty servicemembers from suing the government, including for medical malpractice, Mrs. Witt is left without recourse.
Yeomans Work
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Seven Myths about the Path Forward
It’s time to take on some of the myths that permeate discussion of how to proceed in subjecting Donald Trump to the rule of law.
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House — Exhausted from Threatening Oversight — Needs Another Recess
The House greeted the release of the redacted Mueller report by taking a 10-day recess. After returning for several weeks of name-calling between the Speaker and the President, the issuance of a bunch of subpoenas, threats of contempt, and two court victories, the House ran out of gas and headed off for another 10-day recess. While Speaker Nancy Pelosi jockeyed to hold the growing impeachment caucus at bay, the House failed to hold a single substantive hearing on the Mueller Report or even to secure a date to hear from Mueller.
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Bolder Advocacy: New Guide Is “Roadmap to Success” for Nonprofits Seeking Advocacy Funding
Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program is excited to announce that its latest comprehensive guide for nonprofits, “Foundation Advocacy Grants: What Grantees Need to Know,” is now available.
