Safeguarding religious liberty demands that we keep delivering superior, expert judicial research and vetting nominees to determine if their records show they will be committed protectors of America’s first freedom—and we can continue making that happen with your support. “Joseph Bianco has a proven track record of fairly applying the law and adhering to the Constitution,” said Carrie Severino of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. If Trump fills the remaining two vacancies on the 2nd Circuit, Republican appointees will control the court.

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By clicking submit, you are verifying that you are 16 years of age or older. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) The long-standing liberal court, the 9th Circuit, continues to see strong conservative judges appointed to it, bringing the ratio of liberal to conservative judges to only 16–13, respectively. This map is meant to examine if such reputations are warranted. But the transformation of the federal judiciary so far is just the beginning of a sweeping change. Here is a short list of some important changes happening across the judiciary: While it’s evident that unprecedented progress is taking place, there’s still much work to be done to fill the remaining federal vacancies with strong judges committed to the Constitution. Terms of Use • Privacy Policy • Sitemap • © 2020 Liberty Institute® is a trademark of First Liberty Institute. Circuit Court of Appeals with conservative jurists. “Park, a longtime member of the Federalist Society became a partner in 2015 at Consovoy McCarthy Park, a boutique law firm that ‘has become the go-to legal shop for conservative ideologues looking to fight everything from voting rights to affirmative action to abortion,’” a report from the liberal Alliance for Justice reads. ZIP / Postal Code: Yes, I would like to receive e-mail from First Liberty Institute https://t.co/cmAdgUvXQO, Menashi has been pilloried by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who smeared his law-review article titled “Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy” as “a high-brow argument for racial purity.” But as Ed Whelan pointed out in National Review, Menashi’s point, that “ethnonationalism remains a common and accepted feature of liberal democracy that is consistent with current state practice and international law,” is to rebut claims that “Israel’s particularistic identity—its desire to serve as a homeland for the Jewish people—contradicts principles of universalism and equality upon which liberal democracy supposedly rests.” Menashi, whose maternal grandfather’s relatives were murdered in the Holocaust, added in his article, “[p]articularistic nationalism and liberal democracy … emerged together at the same historical moment and persisted in symbiosis.”, Menashi’s argument about national identity is clearly not about “racial purity” or a “unifying race.” Indeed, the fact that Israelis from Ethiopia are black makes it impossible to take seriously the claim that Menashi is making a case for “racial purity.” Menashi further states that it “is not even clear … that Israel’s national identity can even be described as ‘ethnic’” (in a narrow sense of that concept), as Israeli Jews come from “Argentina, Ethiopia, Germany, Morocco, Russia, and Yemen.”, The assumption by many that Menashi welcomes his conclusion that “the solidarity underlying democratic polities rests in large part on ethnic identification” is beyond bizarre.
Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, flipped another U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a court Trump has flipped to a conservative majority. The 2nd Circuit is the federal appeals court that covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Required* Last Name:Required* Email:RequiredZIP / Postal Code: Yes, I would like to receive e-mail from First Liberty Institute New York Democratic Sens. Three reasons why a stack of politically-motivated judges is a threat to the nation’s highest court, as well as the Constitution. Liberal groups said the GOP disregarded Senate tradition for partisan advantage, though Republicans say the blue slip rule has been enforced irregularly in the modern period. The upcoming election year may be the last chance we have to provide our expertise on which appointees will be protectors of religious liberty.

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Though … Circuit Court judges are politically appointed, and certain circuits often gain reputations for being liberal or conservative. Under past Senate convention, the Senate Judiciary Committee would not convene a confirmation hearing until senators return an opinion on a judicial nominee selected for a court in their state. On Thursday, President Trump flipped another U.S. It is appalling that those who oppose the existence of Israel as a refuge for Jews are prominent among those viciously and baselessly attacking Menashi as a racist. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience.