Liberal advocacy groups are finally making judicial reform a common denominator for their platforms. “It’s not an easy fight,” says one leading organizer—but at this point, they “don’t have a choice.”
was every bit as outrageous: The six-member conservative majority, in handcuffing the EPA’s regulatory authority, had “declared war on governing,” as my colleaguethe desperate need for judicial reform.
“We decided that that was a step too far,” says Lindner, senior director of judiciary and democracy at the League of Conservation Voters, the influential environmental advocacy group. The Court, he tells me, was “serving the interests of the polluters,” and had not only shifted too far to the right—it had become too powerful.
Lindner is hardly alone in that sentiment; he’s part of a growing recognition on the left that progress in the policy arena could be entirely undermined by an activist, right-wing court that has come to seem less like a judicial body and more like an unelected “superlegislature,” as Democratic representativelast week.
“Issue groups that may have been hesitant to weigh in on the Supreme Court before now understand that they don’t have a choice, because the Supreme Court impacts all of our issues, from pollution and the water we drink to safety in our communities to our most personal health care decisions,” Rhodes says of the effort, which has so far sought to build public pressure on lawmakers to act.
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