Fair and Just Courts

Obama Wins Mandate on the Courts

A memo about how the November election "delivered a sweeping mandate for President-elect Obama to appoint federal judges who are committed to core constitutional values."
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The Numbers Don't Lie--GOP Obstruction Efforts Unprecedented in Senate
If it has seemed that Republican Senators have been expending tremendous amounts of energy for the sole purpose of slowing down the work of the Senate and the President’s reform agenda, that’s because they have.
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Attacks on DOJ Nominees Signal Right's Judicial Nominations Strategy

Right-wing political and legal organizations have unleashed a coordinated campaign of over-the-top attacks on the qualifications, records, and fitness of President Obama's nominees for important positions in the U.S. Justice Department. Right Wing Watch In Focus exposes the real reason why.
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Report: The Human Toll
A report from People For the American Way Foundation puts a human face on the damage done by George W. Bush's judges by presenting the stories of Americans whose cases have come before judges the president nominated.
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