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October 5, 2018

Event – Oct. 6: No Justice, No Seat: March to #STOPKAVANAUGH

This is it! The Senate is planning to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination on Saturday at. We say NO and this is our final opportunity to ensure every senator votes no too! We are marching to remind them that the Supreme Court is the People’s Court.

October 4, 2018

Event – Oct. 4: Cancel Kavanaugh: Believe Survivors

One week after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford bravely testified before the Senate Judiciary. One week after we watched male Senators apologize to an abuser and dismiss his victim. We’re coming back. We’re marching from Brett Kavanaugh’s current courthouse to the court he hopes to ascend to. We’ll do everything we can to make sure he doesn’t get there.

October 3, 2018

Event – Oct. 3: #StopKavanaugh Vigil

On October 3, all across the country, Americans will come together in peaceful vigils to demand that the U.S. Senate stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

August 1, 2018

CREDO Taps AFJAC for August Grant

Alliance for Justice Action Campaign is excited to announce that it has been chosen by CREDO Mobile to be an August grant recipient. This selection recognizes AFJAC’s work and leadership as a progressive nonprofit, and we are honored to have this opportunity. Each month, CREDO Mobile dedicates a portion of their revenue—roughly $150,000—and holds an online vote to divide the funds among three progressive nonprofits. The amount that AFJAC receives will depend on how many votes the organization gets.

July 27, 2018

Alliance for Justice Action Campaign Launches Five-Figure SCOTUS Digital Ad Buy

Alliance for Justice Action Campaign announced today it has launched its first five-figure digital ad campaign urging the defeat of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The ads, which will reach audiences in Alaska, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, North Dakota and West Virginia, encourage voters to contact their Senators and urge them to stop Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the high court.

July 25, 2018 TIME

Mitch McConnell Has a Plan to Use Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination for Political Gain

“The American people have a right to know what Brett Kavanaugh participated in during his years with the Bush Administration, especially with regard to human rights abuses perpetrated as part of the so-called ‘war on terror,’ and that is a right that knows no deadline. If it takes several weeks or months to produce the documents, so be it,” said Nan Aron, President of Alliance for Justice Action Campaign. “As for the midterms, we’re confident that people would rather support a Senator who insisted on seeing Kavanaugh’s full record than one who did not.”

May 1, 2018

Advocates Urge Grassley Not to Abandon Time-Honored, Bipartisan Rule on Judicial Nominees

Today, advocates from Iowa and 17 other states descended on the office of Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to urge him not to destroy a 100-year-old Senate tradition that would prevent Senate Republicans from rubber-stamping President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees without the approval of home-state senators.

July 26, 2017

Join AFJAC at Netroots Nation in Atlanta, August 10-13

Heading to Netroots Nation this August? AFJAC will be there! AFJAC is committed to fighting Donald Trump’s conservative takeover of our courts, and we’re looking forward to the chance to meet and greet fellow advocates and activists as we resist his radical agenda.

March 23, 2017 Washington Post

OP-ED: GOP must allow vote on Supreme Court justices

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) signaled an unfolding attack on the Constitution when he said, “There is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices.” He hinted that if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wins, he would block any nominee to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz.) suggested a block of all justices she might name. GOP lawmakers are threatening to extend the scorched-earth campaign tactics of 2016 after Inauguration Day.

February 23, 2017

New Resources Available Online on Latest Trump SCOTUS Picks

Today Donald Trump’s campaign released the names of more individuals he would consider as potential Supreme Court nominees, if he were elected President. Alliance for Justice Action Campaign is compiling research on the records of these individuals to supplement our earlier report on judges Trump named as possible Supreme Court choices this spring.

February 23, 2017

AFJAC President Nan Aron: Trump Judges List “More of the Same”

In response to Donald Trump’s announcement of more individuals he would consider as potential Supreme Court nominees, Alliance for Justice Action Campaign President Nan Aron issued the following statement.

November 9, 2016

What Donald Trump’s ‘ultra-conservative’ Supreme Court will look like

Out of the 21 candidates Trump has put forth, all pose a “dangerous” threat to many Americans, according to the president of the Alliance for Justice Action [Campaign] Nan Aron.