Related Posts

Advertisement

Special Feature

Public Option Scoreboard

Latest Posts

Committee for Justice

RSSRSS 2.0 Feed

Won’t Somebody Think of the White Men?

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 to serve on the second most powerful [...]


Conservatives Are Ready for the Stevens Retirement

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:
I look forward to a Supreme Court confirmation [...]


Bill Ayers Is Back — Dressed Up as a Wise Latina

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 the form of a statement by [...]


Remember Miguel Estrada!

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.
Should Democratic senators or their allies on the [...]


Conservatives Prep Dossiers, Polls for Court Fight

The right plans to take aim at Obama’s bi-partisan image in 2010 with Supreme Court fodder.


Conservatives Cheer Sessions

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 Committee for Justice, which is collecting research [...]