The Movement To Remake ‘Religious Liberty’ Is Taking The Courts
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today on the nomination of Kyle Duncan to a lifetime seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Duncan is one of several of Donald Trump’s judicial...
View ArticleMarjorie Dannenfelser: Confirm Trump Judges To Let States Defund Planned...
Marjorie Dannenfelser, head of the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List, said on a podcast last week that she expected President Trump’s judicial nominees to help pave the way for state laws stripping...
View ArticleWhite House Withdraws Two Controversial Judicial Nominations
The White House today walked back the nominations of two of President Trump’s most controversial judicial nominees, Brett Talley, a 36-year-old with a record of online extremism who had never tried a...
View ArticleAfter Mateer And Talley, Unacceptable Nominees Remain
This post was originally published on the PFAW Blog. The White House was right to withdraw the nominations of Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer to be district court judges. But their withdrawal does not...
View ArticleThe Year The Religious Right Moved Into The White House
Donald Trump wasn’t exactly the dream candidate of the Religious Right. Throughout the Republican primary contest, many in the social conservative movement urged voters to pick what one group of...
View ArticleJudiciary Committee Advances Jesse Helms’ Lawyer & Other Nominees With...
This post originally appeared on the PFAW blog. Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance a large number of nominees, six of whom People For the American Way has opposed as dangerously...
View ArticleMat Staver: ‘Literally We Are A Few Months Away’ From Ensuring End Of Roe &...
Speaking on a Religious Right radio program last week, Mat Staver, the founder of the conservative legal group Liberty Counsel, urged conservative Christians to go to the polls in the 2018 midterm...
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