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May 20, 2022 Newsweek

Neither Side Is Ready to Bridge the Abortion Gap | Opinion

Emotions will be fraught, and like any difficult conversation, I'm not sure sides that disagree with one another will be ready to talk immediately. One of the questions we'll have to ask ourselves, frankly, is whether or not our state representatives and government are capable of having these conversations. The citizenry will naturally begin to have those conversations, but will it just be a case of power politics — where Republican majorities in certain states say "the conversation is over, we are ending abortion," and in Democratic states, you have a similar conversation: "We say the conversation is over. We are allowing abortion."

May 4, 2022 Newsweek

Voters Must Respond to Republicans’ Plans for Our Courts | Opinion

During Justice Jackson's confirmation hearings, multiple Senate Republicans pressed her to support the Trump Court in striking down our long-recognized constitutional right to an abortion later this summer. The Court's conservative majority may overturn Roe v. Wade in its entirety, and there is real danger that the Court may go even further. As Senate Republicans established, overturning Roe is only the beginning of the Republican Party's quest to limit reproductive freedom.

May 3, 2022

AFJ Action Calls For Court Expansion and Filibuster Abolition In Wake of Abortion Decision Leak

Last night, Politico published a draft opinion showing that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is planning to formally overturn people’s constitutional right to an abortion as established Roe v. Wade and affirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The draft decision opens the door for the Supreme Court to overturn other important decisions such as Griswold v. Connecticut, which established a constitutional right to access to birth control, Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the constitutional right to marriage equality, and Lawrence v. Texas, which established the constitutional right to consensual same-sex relationships.

April 4, 2022 Daily Beast

Republicans’ Vote Against Ketanji Brown Jackson Could Come Back to Bite Them

“How does any senator go back to their constituents and explain why they voted against her?” asked Dan Goldberg with the Alliance for Justice Action Campaign. “People definitely are going to remember who was on the right side and who played petty partisan politics with this historic nomination.”

March 29, 2022

AFJ Action Calls For Accountability After Ginni Thomas Revelations

In recent weeks, incredible revelations have come to light regarding the political activity of Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Evidence shows that Ginni Thomas was intimately involved in President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including direct coordination with senior administration staff inside the Trump White House. Ginni Thomas also admitted that she attended the January 6 rally where the insurrection began. In at least some of her communications with President Trump’s then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Ginni Thomas appears to have referenced discussing her activities directly with Justice Thomas.

October 14, 2021

Arizona Constitutional Law Experts Urge Sen. Sinema To Overcome Filibuster For Voting Rights

Today four of Arizona’s leading constitutional law experts — including former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Stanley Feldman and Paul Bender, Dean Emeritus for the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law — submitted a letter to Senator Kyrsten Sinema rebutting her claim that the Senate filibuster serves as a “guardrail” to “[protect] the democracy of our nation.”

September 2, 2021

AFJAC Commits to Six-Figure Advocacy Campaigns, Voter Education and Mobilization Efforts in Response to SCOTUS Overruling Roe v. Wade

AFJ Action Campaign announced today its commitment to six-figure advocacy campaigns in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona highlighting yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to ignore long-established precedent and overrule Roe v. Wade. Because of that decision, which was issued by five ultraconservative justices — including all three Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — the people of Texas no longer have a full constitutional right to an abortion.

November 7, 2020

Biden Presidency An Opportunity To Protect Our Courts

In Tuesday’s election, Joe Biden scored a decisive victory for the White House, but Republicans could still yet maintain narrow control of the Senate.

November 4, 2020

Michigan Voters Elect Fair-Minded Judges McCormack and Welch

With the votes tallied, Michigan voters have elected Elizabeth Welch and Bridget McCormack to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court. Alliance for Justice Action Campaign had endorsed these fair-minded candidates and supported them through a five-figure ad buy.

October 26, 2020

New Supreme Court Ad Campaign Urges Michiganders To Vote For Justice

A new Alliance for Justice Action Campaign ad is urging Michigan voters to vote for Bridget McCormack and Elizabeth Welch for the Michigan State Supreme Court in this election.

October 23, 2020

Lawyers Unite For Day Of Action To #BlockBarrett

Today, Alliance for Justice Action Campaign, Lawyers for Good Government, and Equal Justice Society will join thousands of lawyers across the country to demand that senators oppose the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Following up on the letter of opposition that over 7,000 lawyers have now signed, today’s day of action will include a massive Senate call-in campaign and significant rallying on social media.

October 22, 2020

Coalition of Organizations Delivers 3 Million+ Signatures Calling on Senators to Delay SCOTUS Vote

Today, Daily Kos, MoveOn, The Leadership Conference, and the #OurCourt coalition delivered over 3.2 million petition signatures to the offices of Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, Mitch McConnell, Mike Lee, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis, Richard Burr, Martha McSally, Cory Gardner, and Susan Collins, calling on them to postpone the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court until after the winner of November’s presidential election takes office.