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Right Wing Gets It: Elections Matter Because Courts Matter
For right-wing advocates, big conservative wins in the Supreme Court’s recently completed term have only confirmed the importance of electing a president in 2016 who will give them more justices in the...
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Right Quietly Pours Money Into Montana, Hoping To 'Flip' Pivotal State...
Conservative legal advocates from throughout the country have been quietly pouring money into a Montana state supreme court race, hoping to topple a court majority that has bucked the U.S. Supreme...
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Conservatives See 2016 As Key To A More Conservative SCOTUS
Four of the nine Supreme Court Justices will be in their 80s during the first term of whoever is elected president next year, meaning he or she could usher in an enormous shift in the Court’s makeup....
View ArticleConservative Legal Activist Admits GOP SCOTUS Obstruction Is All About Politics
Within hours of the news breaking of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday, Republican politicians and conservative activists circled the wagons and vowed to block the confirmation of any person...
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Conservative Groups Circle The Wagons On SCOTUS Obstruction
When the news broke of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday, Republicans in the Senate almost immediately vowed to block the nomination of any person President Obama puts forward to fill the...
View ArticleJay Sekulow: 'Advice And Consent' Means Telling Obama 'Don't Put Up A Nominee'
Jay Sekulow, the chief counsel of the conservative legal group American Center for Law and Justice, offered a creative interpretation of the Senate’s constitutional duty to provide “advice and consent”...
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Five Bogus Right-Wing Excuses For Obstructing Obama's SCOTUS Nominee
It didn’t take long for Republicans to admit that their purportedly principled vow to block anyone President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia is all about...
View ArticleThe Judicial Crisis Network's Incredibly Dishonest Pro-Obstruction Ad
The messaging that conservatives seem to have settled on regarding the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia is that somehow Americans won’t have a say in who the next...
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Right Wing Round-Up - 2/19/16
Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: Why Media Outlets Shouldn't Take The Judicial Crisis Network Seriously.Alex Griswold @ Mediaite: Donald Trump Lied About Opposing Iraq War, Supported it in 2002...
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Who’s Driving The GOP’s Supreme Court Blockade?
Almost immediately after the news broke of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month, Republican senators started vowing to block the nomination of whomever President Obama appoints to succeed the...
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Do Conservatives Even Believe In The Bill Of Rights?
The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) has somehow managed to stoop even lower in its dishonest and deceitful campaign to block the Senate from even considering whomever President Obama nominates to fill...
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Courting Extremism: The Week The GOP Admitted Its Supreme Court Blockade Is...
Courting Extremism is a weekly feature on conservative responses to the Supreme Court vacancy. We are introducing a new series here on Right Wing Watch as the GOP’s obstructionism reaches a new low,...
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Right Wing Round-Up - 3/15/16
Timothy Johnson @ Media Matters: The Rank Hypocrisy Of Judicial Crisis Network's Smear Of Jane Kelly For Doing Her Job As A Lawyer.Aaron Rupar @ Think Progress: The Shady Backstory Behind The Florida...
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'Swift Boat' PR Firm Takes Up Supreme Court Fight
The public relations firm that pushed the false “swift boat” smear on John Kerry in 2004 and has since taken up far-right causes from creationism to the Tea Party to recent attacks on Planned...
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Conservatives Make Pathetic Effort To Claim Garland Is 'Hostile' To Gun Rights
As soon as President Obama announced his nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the Supreme Court seat left by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, the conservative Judicial Crisis Network and the Republican...
View ArticleJCN Laughably Changes Course In Attempt To Paint Merrick Garland As A...
Back in 2010, as President Obama was considering possible nominees to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, Judicial Crisis Network attorney Carrie Severino mused, “Of those...
View ArticleCourting Extremism: Gun Activist Warns Garland While Other Conservatives...
Courting Extremism is a weekly feature on conservative responses to the Supreme Court vacancy.Unable to come up with any honest attacks against Judge Merrick Garland’s record, conservatives continue to...
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Ron Johnson Is Taking His SCOTUS Talking Points Straight From Right-Wing Groups
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is one of the Republican senators who is under considerable pressure in his home state to break from his party leadership and consider the nomination of Judge Merrick...
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The Judicial Crisis Network Conveniently Forgets Its Own History
It has been truly remarkable watching the Judicial Crisis Network criss-crossing the country pressuring Republican senators to keep up their blockade of President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination,...
View ArticleCourting Extremism: Donald Trump's Supreme Court And Chuck Grassley's...
Courting Extremism is a weekly feature on conservative responses to the Supreme Court vacancy.Donald Trump, currently the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary, believes that Barack Obama...
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