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• October 23, 2020

  Senators Booker, Stabenow, Whitehouse, Blumenthal, Brown, Cardin, Van Hollen Unveil New Report on Consequences for Core Civil Rights Protections of Special Interest Campaign to Capture Our Courts

  Report shows anonymously funded, dark money groups have worked to tilt the balance of the judiciary in favor of special interests, denying workers, racial minorities, women, immigrants, and religious minorities equal justice under law

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) released a ne
• October 23, 2020

  Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Stabenow, Colleagues Release Report Exposing Powerful Gun Lobby's Scheme to Strike Down Commonsense Gun Safety Laws Through the Courts

  The corrupt NRA – supported by gun manufacturers & dark money interests – has poured millions of dollars into capturing the courts 

  [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) today released an extensive report detailing the process by which the corrupt National Rifle Association (NRA), with gun manufacturers and dark
• October 16, 2020

  Merkley, Whitehouse, Stabenow, Colleagues Release Disturbing Report on How Special Interests Have Blocked Climate Action in the Courts

  As extremist Supreme Court nomination moves forward, report details how appointment of over 200 inexperienced, young, and partisan extremist judges has already had devastating impact on our environment 

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), today led the release of an extensive report detailing the process by which the powerful and the privileged have
• October 8, 2020

  Senate Democrats Release New Report Detailing the Assault on Our Democracy by Republican-appointed Judges

  The issue-based report released as part of Senate Democrats’ Captured Courts project 

  "Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, as well as judges nominated by previous Republican presidents, are responsible for the vast majority of the decisions that have resulted in voter suppression and made it nearly impossible to regulate political spending"

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D
• October 5, 2020

  Senate Democrats Release New Report Detailing How Supreme Court Nominee Could Escalate Corporate Takeover of Our Judiciary

  For years, ‘The Roberts Five’ & Trump’s Judiciary Have Rigged the Economic System for the Wealthy and Giant Corporations

  A host of corporate-funded front groups have used the courts to shield big corporations from legal accountability; Under Chief Justice Roberts Court, these groups have won at historic rates

  If Trump and Senate Republicans steal another Supreme Court
• October 1, 2020

  Senate Democrats Release New Report Detailing How Labor and Workers' Rights Are At Risk With New Supreme Court Vacancy

  The Issue-Based Report Released As Part of Senate Democrats’ Captured Courts Project

  “The Right to Organize, The Right to Sue Abusive Employers, The Right to Receive Fair Pay, and The Right to a Workplace Free From Discrimination are All Under Judicial Attack—And Will Be For The Foreseeable Future”
• September 23, 2020

  Senate Democrats Release New Report Detailing How Health Care and Reproductive Rights are at Risk with New Supreme Court Vacancy

  The first issue-based report released as part of Senate Democrats’ Captured Courts Project 

  “Courts are the linchpin of the Republican anti-health care and anti-choice agenda. 

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Mazie Hirono (D-