If lawlessness is at the center of the coming legal war, it will instead be the lawlessness of judicial activism, which we got a taste of in

Curtis Levey, a constitutional law attorney for FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group backing Gorsuch, called such a split of votes a “halfhearted filibuster,” and that may be the likely path for Gorsuch to reach the high court. That’s how Justice Samuel Alito was confirmed in 2006, Levey said. Then, 19 Democrats voted with Republicans to end a last-minute filibuster of Alito on a 72-25 vote. Minutes later in the final vote, just four Democrats joined Republicans and Alito was con

Seemingly unaware of the obvious hypocrisy, Schumer, Leahy and other Democrats accuse President Trump of questioning Judge Robart's legi

Curt Levey, a conservative legal activist, said Trump’s controversial comments and his intended disruptive role will transform the Senate hearing and debate on Gorsuch. “This confirmation process may well be different, with President Trump’s tweets and other remarks driving the flow,” Levey wrote in an op-ed in the Hill newspaper, adding, “Don’t be surprised if Democrats question Trump’s legitimacy to make Supreme Court nominations and hold Gorsuch’s nomination hostage to ex

In an op-ed in The Hill, Curt Levey writes that the "tried-and-true playbooks may turn out to be of little use in this contest, but ...

Strategy memos and talking points are flying around Washington as Democrats and Republicans begin a fierce battle over the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. I am not on the Democrats' recipient list, but a dozen years of watching these battles from up close tells me a lot about how this contest will play out. Even so, the unique aspects of this confirmation fight ensure surprises. This op-ed was authored by CFJ President Curt Levey and originally published in

If you watched the Senate hearings for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, you saw Democrats and their witnesses paint a disturbing picture of their colleague as a man who is insensitive, if not downright hostile, to the rights of minorities. Much of it sounded familiar because, for more than thirty years now, Democrat senators and their allies have been using the same defamatory tactics against Southern white men nominated to the nation's highest legal offices. The goal

On January 5, 2017, the Committee for Justice joined conservative leaders in a letter urging U.S. senators to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General of the United States. The full text of the letter follows.

"Going with a woman or a minority does get you some brownie points, so in terms of picking the hardest to confirm now, that would argue for a man," Curt Levey, a conservative legal activists with Freedomworks and Committee for Justice, told Politico. "Also the symbolic value, if Ginsburg does leave the court, of replacing her with a woman would be important." Read more in U.S. News & World Report.