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Won’t Somebody Think of the White Men?

By | 11.05.09 | 4:26 pm

From the conservative Committee for Justice, a key player in judicial nomination fights, comes this reaction to the nominations of one Hispanic and one African-American judge to circuit court slots.

Does President Obama or his advisors believe that southern white men are likely to be bigoted, making them unfit

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Conservatives Are Ready for the Stevens Retirement

By | 09.03.09 | 10:18 am

Keying off the rumors that Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens may retire, I asked Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, the group that marshalled a lot of opposition to the nomination Sonia Sotomayor, if he was ready to get the band back together. His response: More…

Bill Ayers Is Back — Dressed Up as a Wise Latina

By | 07.15.09 | 2:06 pm

Claiming that Americans must “Stop Sotomayor” from wreaking havoc and terrorism on the country from a perch on the nation’s highest court, this new Committee for Justice ad warns that like “Barack Obama’s buddy, Bill Ayers,”  Judge Sonia Sotomayor led a group supporting violent terrorists. That support apparently took More…

Remember Miguel Estrada!

By | 05.27.09 | 12:00 pm

Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, one of the leaders of the conservative pushback against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, publishes a FAQ on the top questions about the judge’s credentials. One key argument is why conservatives shouldn’t back off from attacking the potential first Hispanic justice.

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Conservatives Prep Dossiers, Polls for Court Fight

By | 05.07.09 | 9:33 am

Curt Levey sometimes wears a lapel pin with the faces of Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito and the legend “Thanks, W.” Once in a while he swaps that out for another button, with the same portraits of George W. Bush’s two high court appointments, but a more forward-looking slogan: More…

Conservatives Cheer Sessions

By | 05.04.09 | 1:47 pm

It’s pretty hard to find a conservative who isn’t happy about Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) replacing party-switcher Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) as the ranking Republican member on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Sessions is one of the best legal minds in the Senate,” said Curt Levey, executive director of the More…