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Video: Conservative Legal Experts on Kagan Nomination

By | 06.23.10 | 4:01 pm

Last week, we showed you a discussion of Elana Kagan’s upcoming confirmation battle in the Senate. Yesterday, top conservatives who work on Supreme Court confirmation fights weighed in on her nomination. Video after the jump:

‘Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Country to Save!’

By | 02.17.10 | 5:43 pm

ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Outside of the Collingwood Library and Museum, a stately home a few miles down the highway from Washington, D.C. — and a few miles north of Mount Vernon — dozens of conservative activists gathered to witness the introduction and signing of the Mount Vernon Statement. On the More…

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…

Committee for Justice: Sotomayor Vote Was ‘Conservative Victory’

By | 08.06.09 | 3:51 pm

Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, which did a lot of the legwork organizing opposition to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, pronounces victory after the 68-31 confirmation vote.

The engagement of the Second Amendment community will long be remembered as the most significant aspect of this confirmation battle.  Although

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As Sotomayor Confirmation Looms, Conservatives Count Victories

By | 07.28.09 | 11:10 am

As the Senate Judiciary Committee readies for Tuesday’s vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, conservative judicial activists are taking stock of the battle that demanded so much of their energy for more than two months. They don’t expect to make her the first high court nominee to go More…

Committee for Justice Responds to Lindsey Graham’s Support of Sotomayor

By | 07.22.09 | 5:33 pm

I emailed Curt Levey, director of the Committee for Justice, after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he would support Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, therefore guaranteeing her a bipartisan vote out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I can’t say I’m surprised,” said Levey. “Anyone who listened to 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…