Demand Justice

Fighting for courts that serve the people, not the powerful

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Donald Trump’s personal defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, is running the Justice Department as Acting Attorney General. Now Trump wants to make it permanent.

Blanche defended Trump in the hush-money case. He defended Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Now Trump wants to hand him the keys to the nation's top law enforcement agency.

Most recently, Blanche helped advance a controversial $1.8 billion settlement scheme that unraveled after massive public backlash.

The Justice Department’s job is to uphold the rule of law. Putting Trump's personal attorney in charge would uphold the rule of Trump.

The Senate must reject this nomination.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Republicans are showing their cards: they don’t care if judicial nominees refuse to say who won the 2020 election. They don’t care if nominees refuse to say what happened on January 6th. And they don’t care if judicial nominees are loyal to Trump over the rule of law.

@SenatorCollins, @JonHusted, @lisamurkowski, and @SenDanSullivan all voted to confirm Katie Lane (D. Mont.) and Jeffrey Kuhlman (D. Kan.), two of Trump’s crony judges, to lifetime seats on the federal judiciary.

Unacceptable. We need Senators who stand with the American people, not Trump’s lies. #NoCronyJudges

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

The Wall Street Journal editorial board — longtime mouthpiece for the 40-year project to corrupt the courts — is panicking. The movement for Supreme Court reform has never been stronger. And they know it.

https://t.co/eUoF2f5c0M

[Josh Orton @joshorton]

Tonight, once again, the Supreme Court’s corrupt majority blatantly and illegitimately handed Republicans more power. This time by approving a discriminatory map that eliminated a majority-Black district in Alabama - a map that lower courts already said was unlawful based on the Supreme Court's own standard.

This has gone too far. The Court cannot keep attacking our rights and lying to our faces about it. We must build a movement for a Supreme Court that serves all people, not just the powerful.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

It's not a matter of opinion: Trump lost the 2020 election. So why won't Mike Hendershot just say it?

He can't. None of them can. Trump's judicial nominees are auditioning for lifetime seats on the federal bench, and the price of admission is peddling the president’s Big Lie. If they can’t be trusted to use independent judgement in a hearing, they can’t be trusted to be independent on the bench.

Loyalists don't belong on the federal bench. #NoCronyJudges

[Josh Orton @joshorton]

You know who thinks Trump will have SCOTUS vacancies this year? Lower court judges who desperately want the job.

And they're tripping over themselves to audition for Trump by proving the one criteria he cares about the most: loyalty.

https://t.co/93qpXVEOjG

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund.

This taxpayer-funded scheme is pure corruption designed to reward Trump's political allies, including rioters convicted of attacking our Capitol on January 6th.

This is what the courts are supposed to do: check a power-mad president who thinks public money is his personal piggy bank.

But temporarily blocking this scheme is just a first step. The slush fund must never move forward.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Trump's delusions about the 2020 election have infected the Justice Department and deeply undermined its credibility.

So when Trump's judicial nominees refuse to say he lost in 2020, it's not just some harmless wink - it's a bow to power, and an agreement to participate in Trump's ongoing attack on facts and reality.

@CNN: https://t.co/H14WB5bTOB

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

.@SenatorWarnock isn't mincing words: expanding the Supreme Court must be on the table.

This Court is exclusively on the side of the powerful: it’s handed Trump unchecked power, gutted voting rights, and ruled for billionaires over working Americans, time and again.

Warnock said what more leaders need to say out loud: this moment calls for significant, fundamental change to the Supreme Court.

Source: Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Trump lost the 2020 election. Full stop.

So why are his judicial nominees refusing to say so? Because Trump demands loyalty over truth, and these nominees are auditioning for lifetime seats by keeping his Big Lie alive.

Demand Justice President @joshorton joined @MacFarlaneNews to explain exactly why nominees who peddle Trump's delusions are disqualified from the federal bench. Watch from @MacFarlaneNews @meidastouch: https://t.co/hwpCUu9jF9 #NoCronyJudges

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Republicans are bending over backwards to avoid the obvious. There's a reason Sen. Grassley was caught on a hot mic asking his own staff, "What would be wrong if [a judicial nominee] said Biden won?" He knows. They all know.

Trump lost in 2020. The Capitol was attacked on January 6th. These aren't controversial statements, they're facts. And nominees up for lifetime seats on the federal bench don't get to hide behind rehearsed non-answers designed to prove their loyalty to the President.

Read more from our President @joshorton in @HuffPost: https://t.co/KYH3CNgFct

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Any serious Democratic presidential candidate needs a plan to reform a Supreme Court that is beholden to corporate elites.

If they don’t, then any progress made - from child care to voting rights to corporate accountability - will get struck down.

Read more from @RonBrownstein: https://t.co/p6LkeZSbHG

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

A Delaware state judge just ruled that corporations can vote in local elections.

Over 200 "artificial entities" (LLCs, trusts, corporations) are now registered voters in Fenwick Island. That's 12% of the electorate.

Delaware has more corporations chartered in the state than people who live there. If you think Citizens United was bad, meet its logical conclusion.

Corporations aren't people. They don't have kids in local schools, they don't drink the water, they can’t be jailed for crimes, and they shouldn't get a vote.

(Photo: Cape Gazette)

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland for 422 days. Then turned around and confirmed Amy Coney Barrett weeks before an election. The Republicans packed the Court then, but call the idea radical now.

The result: an illegitimate 6-3 Court dismantling voting rights, workers' rights, and reproductive freedom. We need reform now.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

This court isn't acting like a Supreme Court; it's acting like a legislature, setting its own agenda to dismantle our rights one case at a time.

Opponents of Supreme Court expansion claim it undermines the Court’s legitimacy. But as @RepRaskin points out,  the Supreme Court's reputation is already "in the gutter."

The Supreme Court needs critical reform. #NoCronyJudges

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

The Supreme Court is not there to be a rubber stamp for Trump. It exists to protect our rights from abuse by the powerful.

In today's House Judiciary Committee hearing on court reform, @RepRaskin emphasized that Trump wants a Supreme Court loyal to him: his money, his family, his corporations. Not the Constitution, and not the American people.

We've seen this play out in judicial confirmation hearings this year. Trump's nominees refuse to say who won the 2020 election or what happened on January 6th, because loyalty to Trump comes first.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Witness at House Judiciary Hearing: "Justice Thomas is scrupulous about not accepting gifts."

Fact check: Clarence Thomas is deeply corrupt and has accepted millions of dollars worth of gifts: https://t.co/Ihc2RgMTcW

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

At today's confirmation hearing, Senator Blumenthal called out Benjamin Flowers and Matthew Schwartz for giving rehearsed non-answers to avoid contradicting Trump's Big Lie.

Judges need to be independent. These two aren't. They're cronies, and they shouldn’t be confirmed. #NoCronyJudges

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

WATCH: Senator Chuck Grassley struggles to read a script in order to lie about Trump's 2020 election claims, and says it’s "controversial."

It's outrageous the lengths Senate Republicans go so that they can advance cronies nominated by someone who tried to overthrow an election and lied about it.

Trump lost in 2020. The sky is blue. Water is wet. Some things just aren't hard to say — even if you are handed a script and ordered to read it.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

“All federal judges need to be loyal to the law and the rights of the people–not to the President’s personal or political agenda.” - Demand Justice President Josh Orton

Yet eight Senate Democrats just joined Republicans to confirm yet another Trump judicial nominee. When Democrats cross the aisle to confirm Trump’s crony judges, they’re making it easier for Trump to trample the rule of law.

This must stop.

Read more in Bloomberg Law: https://t.co/Waz2fwFRva