JCN Press Release

"Today's Senate Judiciary Committee vote is a line in the sand: Republicans will no longer defer to confirmation of liberal judicial activists. The overwhelming, almost-unanimous Republican opposition to the nomination of Judge Sotomayor is a historical first.

"This vote will mark the moment when Senators began, in their constitutional exercise of 'advice and consent,' to push the Supreme Court back to its proper role of judicial restraint under the Constitution.

Last week, soon after the White House delivered Judge Sotomayor's Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire in what it billed as record time, it became clear that Judge Sotomayor had failed to disclose an important memo she wrote for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) arguing against the death penalty in New York.

"It now appears that she failed to disclose more than just that memo: the questionnaire contains many glaring omissions that would have given the Senate and the American public a better idea of who she is and how she approaches the law," said JCN counsel Wendy E. Long. "These omissions lead to the inescapable conclusion that the White House wants to rush through her nomination without giving Senators and the American people full transparency about Sotomayor's record."

The Judicial Confirmation Network (www.judicialnetwork.com) today launched a series of ads that expose the records of President Obama's reported frontrunners for the Supreme Court nomination to replace Justice Souter. The ads are available at www.obamasfrontrunners.com.

"With the bully pulpit of the Presidency, Congress, and the media under the control of liberals, the American people are getting a giant deception about the the liberal judicial activist philosophy of nominees floated as frontrunners," said Wendy Long . "They are not moderates or centrists; they hard-left activists who would decide cases based on their feelings and their personal political agendas."

Wendy E. Long, counsel to The Judicial Confirmation Network, today made the following statement on the United States Senate vote, 61 31, on the controversial nomination of Elena Kagan to be the Obama Administration's Solicitor General:...

The Judicial Confirmation Network today reacted to President Obama's reported plans to make his first nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals this week, Judge David Hamilton from Indiana.

The Judicial Confirmation Network praised U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and all 41 Republican United States Senators for the letter they sent today to President Barack Obama setting forth some baseline procedures and standards on judicial nominees.

TO: JCN Members, Allies, and Interested Persons
FROM: Wendy Long, JCN Counsel

RE: Obama Judicial Nominations

Like many of you, we at JCN were disappointed that the federal courts received so little attention during the presidential campaign.

But here is the good news. We remain very bullish on the judges issue. Four essential points:

To: JCN members and supporters
From: Wendy E. Long, Counsel

Subject: Last Night's Election Win in the State Supreme Courts

Anyone looking for a silver lining in this election cycle should consider the ringing endorsement for the principle of judicial restraint among the millions of voters who actually cast a ballot.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Peter Robbio, Romney Wilson or Anne Marie Moran at 703-683-5004

Washington, DC - The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) today extended its nationwide public education and membership campaign with a new $250,000 television ad buy in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh as well as northern West Virginia. The ad will also be featured on the Drudge Report website. The campaign has now exceeded $1.3 million.

"Senator Obama, true to form, made a lot of statements tonight that were crafted cynically to appeal to heartland America instead of his radical liberal constituency. This time it was about appointments he would make to the Supreme Court. Obama claims that he would not apply a litmus test for Justices on abortion, but when he talks to his usual pro-abortion constituency he makes quite clear that indeed he does have a pro-abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court. Obama wants to use the Court to make sure that Americans never have a chance to place any reasonable regulation on abortion, because he is the most radical pro-abortion activist in the U.S. Senate. John McCain has made plain he has no litmus test on any issue for the Supreme Court, but that he opposes all of the liberal activist Court's legislating from the bench and undermining democracy, on abortion or any other issue."