Alliance for Justice’s expertise in the area of judicial nominations and the role of our justice system makes us a trusted resource for press. AFJ President Nan Aron and the legal experts on our Justice and Bolder Advocacy teams are sought-after sources for print and broadcast media. AFJ’s reports inform in-depth reporting on judicial nominations, and AFJ has been quoted and cited many times in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, the Associated Press, The Nation, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and many more.
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Press Releases
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AFJ: Paycheck Fairness Act Long Overdue
Passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act is long overdue, and we applaud the House for voting in favor of it today.
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AFJ: Trump’s Court Strategy to Destroy ACA Coming “Fully into Focus”
This is a despicable strategy with the equally despicable goal of stripping millions of Americans of desperately needed health care, and it’s incredibly painful to see our courts being abused for this purpose.
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Yeomans: Barr Comes Through for Trump
In the latest edition of Yeomans Work, AFJ Senior Justice Fellow Bill Yeomans bluntly assesses Attorney General William Barr’s post-Mueller report statement that President Trump committed no obstruction of justice: Barr did exactly what Trump hired him to do.
AFJ in the News
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Barr’s Finding of No Obstruction by Trump Triggers Firestorm of Democratic Criticism
Congressional Democrats want to know what led to Mueller’s and Barr’s decisions, and they’re calling for the full report to be released.
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Trump-picked 9th Circuit judge clears last hurdle to confirmation, with more nominees in pipeline
Another of President Trump’s nominees to the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Monday.
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Should Promise to Appoint This Kind of Judge to the Federal Courts
Too few judges have any experience representing indigent criminal defendants, and without more public defenders on the bench, the rights of criminal defendants can never be fully secured. This is hardly a new problem but it has been exacerbated by Trump, who has yet to appoint a single public defender to the federal bench.
Reports
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Alliance for Justice Applauds H.R. 1 SCOTUS Ethics Provision
The U.S. Supreme Court has never adopted nor been subject to a comprehensive code of judicial ethics. H.R. 1 proposes to change that by requiring the creation of a code of conduct for United States Supreme Court justices.
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Summary Review of Trump’s Mark on the Courts
After two years, the harm President Trump is doing to our justice system is clear.
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William Barr
President Trump announced that he plans to appoint William Barr to be attorney general.
