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The Hill’s Profile of Sheldon Whitehouse Gets Money and Influence Backwards

By Carrie Severino | June 8, 2020

The Hill just profiled Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as the “Democratic Party’s leading voice on the courts” in an article that comes out of the gate with a glaringly false assertion: “Democrats have historically struggled to match the GOP’s intense focus on the courts. They also lack the network of well-funded legal advocacy groups that conservatives use to mobilize supporters.”

This gets it completely backwards. The funding and influence of groups on the Left has long outsized that of conservative organizations. In the history of this nation, the ACLU has been second to none in taking significant constitutional cases to the Supreme Court. A host of other prominent organizations, like the AFL-CIO, NAACP, Planned Parenthood, and the American Federation of Teachers, have been virtual auxiliaries to the Democratic Party for decades. In fact, they were among more than 1,000 groups that joined a $60 million campaign, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), to secure the passage of Obamacare …

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Filed Under: In The News, JCN Bench Memo Tagged With: Bench Memo, Carrie, Carrie Severino, JCN, Judges, Judicial Crisis Network, National Review, President Trump

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