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Committee for Justice (CFJ) is a right-of-center legal group founded in 2002 by the late C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel for President George H. W. Bush and later U.S. Ambassador to the European Union in the administration of President George W. Bush. ¹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-63823) The stated mission was to restore the Founders’ vision of a federal judiciary governed by the rule of law and Constitution. ²(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-63823)

Gray founded the organization in response to Senate Democrats blocking President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees. ³(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-63823) Former Energy Secretary and U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) later joined Gray to run the organization. ⁴(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-63823)

Curt Levey became president of the Committee for Justice in 2005. ⁵(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-63823)

Background

The Committee for Justice is a conservative-leaning legal group that claims to focus on holding judges and politicians accountable to the Constitution and the rule of law. ⁶(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-63823)

The late former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray founded the organization in 2002. ⁷(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-7-63823) CFJ advocates for legal and policy issues in Congress and the courts. ⁸(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-8-63823) The organization has been involved in legal advocacy, media relations, lobbying, advising politicians and candidates, and running media campaigns. ⁹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-9-63823)

Founding

Origin

The Committee for Justice was founded in July 2002 by C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel for President George H.W. Bush, in response to Senate Democrats blocking President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees.

During President George W. Bush’s first term, then-Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) recruited Gray to “set up something that could combat the well-organized groups on the left like People for the American Way and the Alliance for Justice,” Gray said. He also had encouragement from Bush White House political advisor Karl Rove. ¹⁰(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-10-63823)

Former President George H.W. Bush held a fundraising event for the Committee for Justice at his Houston home that raised $250,000. Later, Bush’s grandson, Texas politician George P. Bush, headlined a Washington fundraising event. Gray also received funding from organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which previously avoided judicial confirmation battles. ¹¹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-11-63823)

Initial Leadership

Gray announced the Committee for Justice in July 2002. Lobbyist Ed Rogers and international trade lawyer Edwin Williams, fellow alumni of the George H.W. Bush administration, joined him as co-founders of the new organization. ¹²(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-12-63823)

Gray clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren. ¹³(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-13-63823) He was later a top adviser for George H.W. Bush during his Vice Presidency in the Reagan administration, and was the counsel to the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief during the Reagan administration. He went onto become White House Counsel for the first President Bush. In addition to founding the Committee for Justice after leaving government work, Gray worked for the George Mason University’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, and was a founding partner of Boyden Gray & Associates. He died in 2023. ¹⁴(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-14-63823)

Ed Rogers was deputy assistant to the president and executive assistant to the Chief of Staff in the George H.W. Bush White House. He was a founding member of the lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers in 1991. Rogers was a senior deputy to Bush-Quayle 1988 Campaign Manager Lee Atwater. He was also a Washington Post columnist from 2011 through 2017. ¹⁵(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-15-63823)

Edwin Williamson is an attorney who was a legal adviser for the U.S. State Department during the George H.W. Bush administration, and specialized in international trade law and national security law. He went onto work for the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. ¹⁶(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-16-63823)

Founding board members in 2002 included then-Michigan Gov. John Engler (R), then-Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, former U.S. Senator Connie Mack III (R-FL), former White House Counsel Fred Fielding, and former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour. ¹⁷(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-17-63823)

Former Energy Secretary and U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) later joined Gray to run the CFJ, as it grew to comment more on judicial appointments and what it considered the threat of judicial activism from the political left. ¹⁸(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-18-63823)

Political Activity

The Committee for Justice initially ran TV and print ads promoting then-President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees whose nominations had been attacked and stalled by Senate Democrats. ¹⁹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-19-63823)

The organization’s first political ad targeted Senate candidate Ron Kirk (D-TX) for his opposition to then-President Bush’s nomination of then-Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Richman Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. ²⁰(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-20-63823)

Other ads defended Bush judicial nominees such as Miguel Estrada, William Pryor, and Charles Pickering. ²¹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-21-63823)

The Committee for Justice ran one ad that showed a sign outside a courthouse that read, “Catholics Need Not Apply,” alleging that Senate Democrats opposed Pryor’s nomination because Pryor was a Catholic. ²²(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-22-63823)

In the 2004 election cycle, it ran ads criticizing Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) for his opposition to President Bush’s judicial nominees. ²³(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-23-63823)

During Bush’s second term, the CFJ pushed to scrap the judicial filibuster for lower court judges but failed after a Senate compromise to limit the use of the filibuster. ²⁴(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-24-63823)

In 2009, the Committee for Justice ran ads opposing President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. ²⁵(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-25-63823)

After the Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, the Committee for Justice expanded to addressing policy issues that it contends are jeopardizing a constitutionalist judiciary. The group claims there are two major challenges in the 21^st century: one is establishing a framework for addressing constitutional questions involving innovative technologies, while the other is preserving the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary against an unaccountable administrative state. ²⁶(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-26-63823)

In 2020, the Committee for Justice president Curt Levey criticized Chief Justice John Roberts of being another Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was known for being a moderate swing vote on the high court. ²⁷(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-27-63823)

Amicus Briefs

In 2022, the CFJ filed a friend of the court brief with the high court challenging racial preference policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.²⁸(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-28-63823)

*In 2023, the CFJ also filed an amicus brief with other conservative-leaning organizations challenging the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness policy. ²⁹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-29-63823)

In a 2023 case where traditional political lines were blurred, the Committee for Justice filed a brief siding with tech companies against Texas and Florida laws that regulate social media content moderation. ³⁰(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-30-63823)

Leadership

Curt Levey is the president for the Committee for Justice. Levey is a lawyer and former artificial intelligence scientist. When working for Hecht-Nielsen Neurocomputer Corp., an AI firm in San Diego, California, he invented and patented technology for adding expert system-like capabilities to a multilayer neural network. The invention became part of HNC’s neural network products as the Falcon credit card fraud detection system. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Levey was previously director of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Rights, where he worked on Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to provisions of the Violence Against Women Act. ³¹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-31-63823) He later worked for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and led the Title IX policy group before joining the Committee for Justice to be president in 2005. ³²(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-32-63823) He has been on the Virginia State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and the executive committee of the Federalist Society’s civil rights practice group. ³³(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-33-63823)

Ashley Baker is the director of public policy of the Committee for Justice. Baker focuses on the Supreme Court, technology and regulatory policy, and judicial nominations. She is a member of the Regulatory Transparency Project’s Cyber and Privacy working group of the Federalist Society. ³⁴(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-34-63823)

Lisa Neuder is the general counsel of the Committee for Justice. ³⁵(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/committee-for-justice-cfj/#easy-footnote-bottom-35-63823)

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Gray was recruited for the task of fighting judicial filibusters two years ago by Republican Sen. Trent Lott. ... Gray formed the Committee for Justice with the ...

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curt Levey, an attorney and former artificial intelligence scientist, is president of the Committee for Justice (CFJ) and a veteran of Supreme Court confirmation battles. Mr. Levey's articles on the judiciary, law and technology, constitutional law, and civil rights have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers, magazines, and law reviews. He is frequently quoted in a wide range of national outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.He has spoken in numerous forums – including the nation's top law schools, legislative hearings, and bar association events – and has been a guest on more than two hundred radio and television programs.

Background: Constitutional Law

After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm in Washington, DC. There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act.

After CIR, he moved to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, where he headed the Title IX policy group until joining CFJ. He has served on the Virginia State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as well as on the executive committee of the Federalist Society's civil rights practice group.

Background: Computer Science

Curt Levey earned an M.S. and B.A. in computer science from Brown University, where he studied artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Before attending Harvard Law School, he worked for five years as a staff scientist at Hecht-Nielsen Neurocomputer Corp. (later "HNC Software"), an AI startup company in San Diego, ... Contact Us

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The Epoch Times Mar 16

New Cancel-Culture Group Aims to Disbar Pro-Trump Lawyers

The Epoch Times: "In an interview with The Epoch Times, Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, said, 'The election is over.'

Brock is 'doing this just to destroy the lives of the attorneys who defended Trump,' but 'everyone, even people that David Brock hates, deserves vigorous legal representation.'

'It is certainly at odds with both the First Amendment and the right of all Americans to have legal representation. It’s just bully tactics' and 'a particularly vicious streak of cancel culture,' Levey said.

The nonprofit describes itself as 'devoted to restoring the Founders’ vision of a federal judiciary governed by the rule of law and anchored by the Constitution.'"...

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a longtime Hillary Clinton ally’s new cancel-culture group announced it plans to spend millions of dollars to disbar 111 lawyers in 26 states who defended the Trump campaign in post-election litigation, or were involved in efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election results.

According to an Axios report, The 65 Project, founded by longtime Democratic Party operative David Brock (pictured above), has begun filing bar complaints against attorneys and plans to run ads in battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The group also intends to lobby the American Bar Association and state bar associations to create rules forbidding some election challenges, and to adopt model language stipulating “fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results violate the ethical duties lawyers must abide by.”

Brock, an erstwhile conservative journalist who switched sides and became a fundraiser for Democrats, founded Media Matters for America and the American Bridge 21st Century super PAC. The “65” refers to the number of lawsuits the group claims were filed that were aimed at invalidating the 2020 election results.

Brock told Axios the purpose of The 65 Project is to “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”

“I think the littler fish are probably more vulnerable to what we’re doing,” he said. “You’re threatening their livelihood. And, you know, they’ve got reputations in their local communities.”

The article states that the project “hopes to deter right-wing legal talent from signing on to any future GOP efforts to overturn elections—including the midterms, or 2024.” The group is the brainchild of Melissa Moss, a Democrat consultant and former senior Clinton administration official.

Although the media outlet reports the group intends to spend around $2.5 million in its first year, and will operate through an existing nonprofit called Law Works, The 65 Project’s website is asking for donations to be made to it through another nonprofit, Franklin Education Forum, which provides debate and media training for left-wing activists.

Texas lawyer Paul M. Davis, who is being targeted by The 65 Project, told Axios the group’s effort “is nothing more than a desperate attempt by leftist hacks and mercenaries.”

Davis said the project’s goal is “to neutralize anyone on the right with the ability to stand in the way of the left’s efforts to hide malfeasance in the 2020 elections and to clear the path for a repeat of similar malfeasance in the 2022 mid-terms.”

Three attorneys contacted by The Epoch Times were critical of The 65 Project to varying degrees.

High-profile attorney Sidney Powell, who is appealing sanctions imposed on her by a federal judge for filing a supposedly frivolous election-related lawsuit, said The 65 Project is “unconstitutional, un-American, abusive, and hateful.”

Referring to Brock, she said by email: “I can’t even imagine how soulless and sick he and his comrades have to be to dedicate themselves and millions of dollars to try to destroy the lives and livelihoods of others. Those dollars could be spent instead to build Habitat homes or shelters for the homeless. Brock and his ilk don’t solve problems; they create them. Pathetic.”

In an interview with The Epoch Times, Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, said “the election is over.”

Brock is “doing this just to destroy the lives of the attorneys who defended Trump,” but “everyone, even people that David Brock hates, deserve vigorous legal representation.”

“It is certainly at odds with both the First Amendment and the right of all Americans to have legal representation. It’s just bully tactics,” and “a particularly vicious streak of cancel culture,” Levey said.

The nonprofit describes itself as “devoted to restoring the Founders’ vision of a federal judiciary governed by the rule of law and anchored by the Constitution.”

Former Department of Justice civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams told The Epoch Times by email that, on the one hand, The 65 Project is “another reason not to get involved with flimsy legal theories, and only bring cases with merit.”

On the other hand, “it shows the Left is swimming in so much cash that they can implement any thuggish program they choose to,” said Adams, who is president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF).

The foundation describes itself as “the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity.” The nonprofit organization “exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity, and fight against lawlessness in American elections.”

The 65 Project website highlights the bar complaints it has filed so far against pro-Trump lawyers for their involvement in post-election lawsuits or activities.

The attorneys targeted so far are: Davis (pdf); Cleta Mitchell (pdf); Jenna Ellis (pdf); Joseph diGenova (pdf); Boris Epshteyn (pdf); William McCall Calhoun (pdf); William Bradley Carver (pdf); Daryl Moody (pdf); and James Troupis and Andrew Hitt (pdf). Carver, Moody, and Hitt are accused of falsely claiming to be presidential electors. Troupis is accused of coordinating false elector slates.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias is leading a related effort to disqualify Republican candidates for allegedly supporting an insurrection against the United States by backing then-President Donald Trump in congressional votes at the end of the 2020 election cycle. Those challenging the candidates cite an obscure post-Civil War constitutional provision intended to keep Confederacy supporters from public office.

So far, allies of Elias have tried to have two pro-Trump Republican congressmen kicked off the ballot for voting not to certify the electoral votes of Arizona and Pennsylvania during a joint session of Congress Jan. 6 and Jan. 7, 2021. During the session, U.S. Capitol security was breached and the disturbance delayed certification of then-candidate Joe Biden’s election victory by several hours. Some of those activists who entered the Capitol are being prosecuted for attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. Some of those held in pretrial detention in the D.C. jail have complained of beatings and torture by guards.

The effort to remove Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) by invoking the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment was unanimously rejected Feb. 18 by the bipartisan Indiana Election Commission, as The Epoch Times reported. The challenge to the candidacy of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is still pending. More candidate challenges are expected.

Elias is a central figure in the “Russiagate” conspiracy.He represented the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, hiring Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. That research effort culminated in the now-discredited 35-page dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele that purported to tie Trump to the Russian government.

Brock, through his Media Matters for America website, which purports to combat “conservative misinformation,” has promoted the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory and Clinton for years. Funded by left-wing financier George Soros, Media Matters has, in turn, funded the Franklin Education Forum.

This article by Matthew Vadum appeared March 8, 2022, in The Epoch Times.

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US FTC, DOJ are pressed to consider privacy, labor issues in merger guideline review even as some ur

Committee for Justice goes on the record about new FTC and DOJ merger guidelines.

Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe is still the only one circulated inside Supreme Court

Curt Levey talks with Politico about supposed dynamics inside the Supreme Court after the Dobbs draft leak.

Trump the hero for anti-abortion movement after bending supreme court his way

Curt Levey is quoted by David Smith of The Guardian and talks about Donald Trump's role in shaping the current Supreme Court.

Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade Won’t Have Ripples, Legal Experts Say

Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade Won’t Have Ripples, Legal Experts Say

Curt Levey talks about the Dobbs draft opinion leak and what it could mean for other substantive due process rights.

Conflicting mask mandate rulings ‘slightly helpful’ to CDC’s appeal

Curt Levey talks with The Washington Times about US District Judge Paul Byron and Katherine Mizelle's conflicting rulings on mask mandates.

Trump-appointed judge who overturned mask mandate becomes instant Republican heroine

Curt Levey discusses Judge Mizelle's opinion striking down the CDC's mask mandate on public transportation with the Guardian.

Builders, Conservatives Urge High Court To Narrow CWA

Committee for Justice joins an amicus brief in the case of Sacket v. EPA.

Bipartisan confirmation to Supreme Court no longer the norm, recent Senate votes show

Curt Levey talks with the Washington Times about trends in Supreme Court confirmation hearings and votes.

Upcoming cases will be instructive about Jackson's judicial approach

Curt Levey is quoted in Newsday in regard to Justice Jackson and her approach to property rights cases.

Clarence Thomas' Wife Focus of Latest Bid to Oust the Justice

Clarence Thomas' Wife Focus of Latest Bid to Oust the Justice

Curt Levey talks with Newsmax about the left's hatred of Clarence Thomas.

Money troubles: Federal judiciary issues new policies for financial disclosures

Curt Levey talks about judicial ethics and new financial disclosure policies for federal judges in The Indiana Lawyer.

After Sen. Kennedy's Questioning, Constitutional Law Expert Reminds Us Who Really Chose KBJ

After Sen. Kennedy's Questioning, Constitutional Law Expert Reminds Us Who Really Chose KBJ

Curt Levey's commentary on Judge Jackson is highlighted inTownhall.

NOW WE KNOW THE ANSWER - KBJsays she will recuse herself from Harvard case

NOW WE KNOW THE ANSWER - KBJ says she will recuse herself from Harvard case

Curt Levey is quoted in Newsday regarding Ketanji Brown Jackson's recusal in the upcoming Harvard case. She has since said she would do so.

Jackson Rulings in Favor of Business May Stem Pro-Union Critics

Curt Levey and Committee for Justice are mentioned in the pages of Bloomberg law in relation to Judge Jackson's record.

Supreme Court confirmation hearing starts with historic mark

Roll Call: Clark Neily of the Cato Institutetalks about the SCOTUS confirmation hearings in a webinar hosted by the Committee for Justice.

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Schumer's Task: Getting Jackson confirmed to Supreme Court

Curt Levey discusses the Supreme Court confirmation process with Newsday.

How Judge Jackson Beat Out Competition For High Court Nod

Law 360: "I'm not sure which way Sen. Graham will vote, but he's certainly entitled to change his mind." - Curt Levey

Antitrust bill will ‘empower and embolden progressives’ without protecting speech

Houston Republic: "The legislation would give additional powers to government oversight agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission."

New Cancel-Culture Group Aims to Disbar Pro-Trump Lawyers

The Epoch Times: In an interview with The Epoch Times, Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, said, “The election is over.”

Curt Levey Responds to Attack from Linda Greenhouse

Biden’s high court choice defies expectations on labor cases

Biden’s high court choice defies expectations on labor cases

Curt Levey is quoted in the Associated Press as he talks about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

How Judge Jackson Beat Out Competition For High Court Nod

Curt Levey talked about the higher level of scrutiny a Supreme Court nominee should face in Law360.

Trump's Judges on 9th Circuit Counter Court's Liberal Bent

The Washington Times: "Whatever improvement there is … will be short-lived."

Jackson’s Breadth Would Set Her Apart on Supreme Court

Bloomberg: "Though she hasn’t been on the appeals court long...her work shows a distrust of Republican administrations."

Supreme Court to Hear 'Remain in Mexico' Case

Townhall: "The Court clearly thought an expedited decision was warranted here because they squeezed a hearing into this term." - Curt Levey

Supreme Court Justices Defend High Court Among Partisan Rhetoric

The Washington Times: Curt Levey says the justices have been more outspoken because the cultural prohibition against doing so has weakened.

Conservatives target Jackson as worst among Biden’s short list for Supreme Court

The Washington Times: "Judge Kruger, meanwhile, is seen as a potentially more moderate pick by some conservatives."

Supreme Court Has Chance to 'Sunset' Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Newsmax: "Curt Levey said affirmative action policies are more about the institution considering them than the students affected by them."

Biden's Replacement for Breyer Is Already in Trouble

Newsmax: "[Biden's promise is] essentially a sign on the White House door saying ‘men and members of all other races need not apply."

Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger among Black female candidates to fill Supreme Court vacancy

The Washington Times: “We have too much identity politics right now. We

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Ashley Baker on Justice Breyer's Retirement: What Comes Next?

Watch Ashley Baker's appearance on OANN as she talks about Justice Breyer's retirement.

A Supreme Court Path for Potential Black Female Nominee

Financial Post: Curt Levey said he would "hold off any judgment about [Judge Jackson's] fitness for the high court until I see her record."

Harvard Race Case Punctuates Supreme Court's Turn to Right

Bloomberg Law: "There’s a lot of promise there with regard to abortion and affirmative action, and maybe even the Second Amendment."

'A fight that will excite black voters': How Democrats see SCOTUS

The Washington Post: "'President Biden’s quota is not about helping minorities,' wrote Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice."

The Rule of Six: A newly radicalized Supreme Court is poised to reshape the nation

The Washington Post quoted Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice.

How Trump reshaped the fifth circuit to become the ‘most extreme’ US court

Conservatives, however, reject the premise that Trump warped the lower courts so they no longer represent the will of the people.

Durham wins over toughest critic with revelations of Dem scheme behind Trump-Russia probe

Curt Levey, president of the right-leaning Committee for Justice, said conservatives should temper their expectations for the Durham probe.

Biden SCOTUS reform panel also mulls ‘dysfunctional’ confirmation process

Politico: "Levey...conceded that it wasn’t really possible to lock in rules that a future Congress could not change"

Supreme Court to Take on Guns, Abortion in Upcoming Term

The Washington Times: "This is potentially their first big Second Amendment ruling since [McDonald v. City of Chicago]"

Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Roe v. Wade in Upcoming Term

The Washington Times: "Curt Levey...said he would be surprised if the justices upheld the Texas law as constitutional."

Biden Nominates Elizabeth Prelogar to Be US Solicitor General

The Epoch Times: "Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, said a solicitor general typically has some influence over the...

Legislation Would Add More Than 75 Federal Judges to Help Alleviate Court Backlogs

Curt Levey said the bill is highly partisan

How RBG's death will impact hot-button issues before the Supreme Court

“Roberts has not exactly been Trump’s friend,” said Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, which supports conservative judicial appointees

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Death of liberal justice gives Trump chance to reshape the US for generations

But Curt Levey, president of the conservative advocacy group the Committee for Justice, insisted that a Trump appointment would not necessar

Interview: President Trump Announces List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees

Interview with Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice and John

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After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights. There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act. After CIR, Levey headed the Title IX policy group at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. He is also a long-time member of the Federalist Society's civil rights executive committee.

Before attending law school, Mr. Levey earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science from Brown University and worked in the field of artificial intelligence. He invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.

Curt Levey is President of the Committee For Justice—an organization dedicated to promoting individual liberty, constitutionally limited government, and a constitutionalist judiciary—and is a veteran of Supreme Court confirmation battles. After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights. There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act. After CIR, Levey headed the Title IX policy group at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. He is also a long-time member of the Federalist Society's civil rights executive committee. Before attending law school, Mr. Levey earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science from Brown University and worked in the field of artificial intelligence. He invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.…see more

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U.S. Supreme Court examples[

In 1916, after President Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court, "concerned" citizens seeking to block his confirmation offered information that Brandeis was a "radical Zionist", even though he was not a practicing Jew. Brandeis aggressively outmaneuvered his detractors by mounting his own opposition research efforts, including a carefully constructed chart that exposed the social and financial connections of the group, mostly from Boston's Back Bay, and including Harvard president Lawrence Lowell, as well as a group headed by former President William Howard Taft and a host of American Bar Association past presidents. Brandeis sent the chart to Walter Lippman at the New Republic who penned an editorial condemning "the most homogeneous, self-centered, and self-complacent community in the United States." Brandeis was confirmed after four months of hearings, in a Senate vote of 47–22.^[46]

Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987, prompting a Senate floor speech from Democratic Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, which later became known as the "Robert Bork's America" speech:

Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is – and is often the only – protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.

Kennedy's speech prompted a rapid-response opposition research effort from Democrats, but the White House waited two and a half months to respond. The Senate Judiciary Committee, under the direction of Delaware senator and presidential hopeful Joseph Biden, commissioned a report in response to the materials Reagan's staff had released in support of Bork's nomination. Prepared by a panel of lawyers, including two Duke University law professors, the 78-page became known as "The Biden Report." The report detailed Bork's record, and analyzed the pattern of his rulings, and deeming him to be a conservative "activist" rather than an impartial jurist. Ultimately, Bork's embattled nomination failed, and Anthony Kennedy (no relation to Ted) was later confirmed to fill the position.^[47][48] The fierce research-based opposition to Bork's nomination attracted significant media attention, even though a Gallup Poll on the eve of the confirmation vote showed that very few Americans could name the nominee in question, much less recall his rulings.^[49] A new verb was later coined; "to bork" a candidate or nominee by mounting such voluminous research and vocal opposition that the person in question would be forced to withdraw.^[50]

After President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Boston Globe reported that Republican conservative advocacy groups were conducting opposition research against her: "Groups are circulating lists of questions they want members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Miers at her confirmation hearings. The activists' thinly veiled hope is that Miers will reveal ignorance of the law and give senators a reason to oppose her."^[51] Miers later withdrew her name from consideration for the court.

On July 7, 2005, soon after the resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the Democratic National Committee gathered and circulated information on the "anti-civil rights" and "anti-immigrant" rulings ofSamuel Alito, by then nominated by President George W. Bush to replace her. Upon inspection, the documents were revealed to have been amended by Devorah Adler, research director for the DNC. Alito's "record" had been pointedly altered to present him in a negative light. While the incident was not unusual, it received publicity in prominent places because it drew attention to the "meta-data" that is often unwittingly stored in documents that are altered and forwarded electronically.^[52]

On May 2, 2009, after Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced his intent to retire from the court, theNew York Times reported that Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice, had noted that conservatives were "focusing opposition research efforts on 17 women, whom they have divided into two tiers based on their perceived chances."^{[53] SOTOMAYOR}

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President, Committee for Justice

Topics: Civil Rights • Labor & Employment Law • Constitution • First Amendment • Federalism • Intellectual Property • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Supreme Court

Curt Levey is President of the Committee For Justice, an organization devoted to advancing constitutionally limited government and individual liberty. He is a veteran of Supreme Court and other judicial confirmation battles and serves on the executive committee of the Federalist Society's Civil Rights Practice Group.

After graduating Harvard Law School with honors andclerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights (CIR). There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act. AfterCIR, Mr. Levey headed the Title IX policy group at the U.S. Department of Education. [WHICH HE Wants to abolish?

Before attending law school, Mr. Levey earned an M.S. and B.A. in computer science from Brown University and worked in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.

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https://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2014/05/37_2_377_Levey_Klukowski.pdf

TAKE CARE NOW: STARE DECISIS AND THE

PRESIDENT’S DUTY TO DEFEND ACTS OF CONGRESS

CURT A. LEVEY* & KENNETH A. KLUKOWSKI**

INTRODUCTION

On January 20, 1981, Ronald Wilson Reagan took the Article

II oath of office to become the fortieth President of the United

States.1 Following his inaugural address to the assembled

throng on the National Mall streaming west from the Capitol,

Reagan entered the Capitol building for the traditional lunch

with members of Congress in Statuary Hall.2 On that day,

President Reagan also established what is now a tradition of going

to the President’s Room in the Capitol after taking his oath to

sign a series of executive orders and officially transmit to the

Senate his first series of nominations for many Cabinet-rank

officials and various other principal officers.3

Now step away from history into an alternate reality. Imagine that in the aforementioned series of nominations, there was

no Secretary of Education. The explanation is found in one of

President Reagan’s executive orders. The President is acting

upon the position he articulated as a candidate in 1980, that the

* President, Committee For Justice. J.D. 1997, Harvard Law School.

** Research Faculty, Liberty University School of Law. Senior Legal Analyst,

Breitbart News. B.B.A. 1998,University of Notre Dame; J.D. 2008, George Mason University.

See U.S. CONST. art. II, § 1, cl. 8 (Presidential Oath Clause).

Fifty-Seventh Presidential Inauguration: Inaugural Luncheon, JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON INAUGURAL CEREMONIES,

http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/days-events/days-event/inaugural-luncheon,

[http://perma.law.harvard.edu/0VWv4bKbMBp].

See Obama to officially sign Cabinet nominations, ASSOCIATED PRESS (Jan. 21,

2013), http://news.yahoo.com/obama-officially-sign-cabinet-nominations163831156--politics.html, [http://perma.law.harvard.edu/08xjhbKD2v6]. In the

Appointments Clause, U.S. CONST. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, the Constitution differentiates

principal officers from inferior officers in the Executive Branch, where the former

are presidential nominees subject to Senate confirmation, and the latter can be

directly appointed by the President, department heads, or the courts. Morrison v.

Olson, 487 U.S. 654, 670–73 (1988).

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week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.

Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who would be the first Hispanic justice, especially for a party struggling to broaden its base and whose chief spokesman on Sotomayor has a troubled history of racism allegations.

Add to that the mathematical impossibility of Republicans' rejecting President Barack Obama's first high court nominee, and it's a recipe for a weak-kneed response.

Conservative activists have noticed, and they're not happy.

"Too many Republicans and conservatives planned to lose instead of planning to win" the debate over Sotomayor, said Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch. His group has mounted strong opposition to the federal appeals court judge.

About half the Senate's Republicans are willing to raise serious questions about Sotomayor and there's "a sizable minority who — partly because she's Hispanic — just want this to go away," said Curt Levey of theCommittee for Justice.

Conservative groups have sought to convince Senate Republicans that they can benefit politically by strongly opposing Sotomayor. But many of their leaders complain the message isn't getting through.

During recent confrontations, some activists have told GOP senators, "Don't throw away yet another conservative agenda item when it's a successful one for you. Your base cares about this and you should, too," said former Rep. David McIntosh, R-Ind., who's advising some outside groups on Sotomayor's nomination. "It was kind of a blunt message."

There are good reasons for Republicans to be holding back, wondering what their best approach is to opposing a nominee who's broadly acknowledged to be qualified and whose past rulings make it difficult to pigeonhole her as a liberal crusader.

The GOP has just 40 votes in the Senate — well short of the majority they would need to defeat Sotomayor or to sustain a drawn-out effort to block a final vote to confirm her.

Even if they could stall Sotomayor's nomination, though, it's evident that many Republicans don't think it's politically prudent to take on a Hispanic woman, given the GOP's low standing in the polls and its efforts to appeal to women and minorities. Those groups traditionally have shunned the party.

The issue of race and ethnicity has proven a toxic one for the key Republican carrying the party message on Sotomayor: Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the senior GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which begins hearings on Sotomayor on July 13....Sessions' own nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 was scuttled by allegations that he made racist comments and targeted black civil rights leaders as a federal prosecutor in Alabama....denied those charges. But he did acknowledge making what he called some off-color "jokes," such as calling civil rights groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "un-American."

Sessions has spoken in similar terms recently about a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group on whose board Sotomayor sat from 1980 until 1992.

"This is a group that has taken some very shocking positions with respect to terrorism," Sessions said of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, citing its defense in 1990 of Puerto Rican nationalists who 36 years earlier had wounded five lawmakers during an attack on the House while it was in session....Sessions said Thursday the group's stances on issues from capital punishment to race were "extreme." His staff raised concern about its ties with the community organizing group ACORN, which Republicans routinely describe as a radical organization.

Democrats said the GOP was grasping at straws.

It's not that Republicans aren't criticizing Sotomayor. Early on, they went out of their way to treat her gently, trying to distinguish themselves from party firebrands such as radio host Rush Limbaugh and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who called her a racist.

In recent days, GOP senators have faulted her for her stance on gun rights, her ruling against white firefighters who alleged reversed discrimination, and her participation in the Puerto Rican legal advocacy group. They've raised questions about her ability to be "colorblind."

Still, they've had to reach to score points against Sotomayor.

For instance, Republicans recently banded together to raise concerns about her position on gun rights. They held a news conference about an appeals court decision Sotomayor joined that said the Second Amendment's protection against curbs on bearing arms applies only to the federal government — not to states.

That was in line with Supreme Court precedent on the issue, Sessions acknowledged, and presumably in keeping with GOP views that judges should be restrained.

But Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, criticized Sotomayor for taking a "cramped and restricted view of a basic civil liberty." At the same time, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Sotomayor had been too expansive in her ruling on the right to keep and bear arms. "I wish Judge Sotomayor had been similarly restrained on these issues" as other courts that ruled differently, he said.

The message was as clear as mud.

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