A liberal lobby group that led a campaign to bully Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer to quit while pushing federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his replacement has close ties to the Biden White House.
As key Senate Democrats this week claimed they knew little about the group, Demand Justice, opposition research teams helped to reveal that both White House press secretary Jen Psaki and the president’s judicial selection czar worked with the outfit, headed by a former aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
— Matt Whitlock March 22, 2022 But the group that has pushed court-packing schemes and court “rebalancing” is well known in Democratic circles and, according to reports, fashions itself as the liberal alternative to GOP court advocates critical of Jackson and who was behind Republican nominees. It has played a central role in rallying support for Jackson and made it clear only Jackson would satisfy the progressive coalition it led, in part due to her background as a public defender. Demand Justice even cut ads to help with the nomination, leading some critics to call it a puppet master of the federal appeals judge.
It said, “Demand Justice Chief Counsel Christopher Kang, who served as Deputy White House Counsel during the Obama-Biden administration, issued the following statement: ‘President-elect Biden is off to a phenomenal start when it comes to judicial nominations. Paige Herwig is a brilliant lawyer and committed public servant who knows the judicial nomination process inside and out, and she’s been on the front lines of rethinking how Democrats should fight for our courts.
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