Conservative organization using claims of 'secret list' of liberal judges to rally Republican base by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — The Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative organization instrumental in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight, is now calling on 2020 Democratic candidates to release what it says is a secret list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court.
She told Yahoo News that the organization is consulting with an advisory council and lawyers' groups around the country, trying to sound out progressives about promising lawyers who could be stars on the federal bench in a Democratic administration. She said the effort was in its early stages. Lis Smith, senior adviser to Mayor Pete Buttigieg, had a similar reaction when asked whether his campaign was in possession of a nominee list. “No idea,” she said.
Severino maintained that though a list did exist, she could provide few details beyond its purported existence.Alliance for Justice said Severino has not seen the list because there is no list. “This is not the infamous Trump ‘list,’” Alliance for Justice founder Nan Aron said of her organization’s effort.
The ad begins by replaying scenes from the contentious Kavanaugh fight, which was marked by accusations of sexual assault against him. “The radical left smeared Judge Kavanaugh,” the ad says. “Now the same radicals want to pack the court,” the narrator says a little later. “They’ve built a secret list of judges they won’t show anyone.”
Some recent polls — the veracity of which the president has called into question — have shown Trump losing support in states he will need to win in the general election. The prospect of a liberal judiciary could motivate conservatives; the issue proved salient in 2016, in particular after Trump released his Federalist Society-endorsed list of conservatives he would appoint to the federal bench.
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