Curt Levey, a constitutional law attorney with FreedomWorks and the Committee For Justice, said: “They will take every opportunity to make this about Trump. “In some ways it works in Gorsuch’s favour. It’s a great chance for Democrats to score points but not seriously wound Gorsuch. They’ll bring up issues where Gorsuch and Trump seems to disagree a bit and try to make Trump look bad.” Read more in The Guardian.

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

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

"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.

Whatever openings Trump may be in a position to fill in the future, however, will be much more challenging. Ginsburg, 83, is among the most liberal justices on the court, and Democrats are likely to push back hard at Republican efforts to replace her with a hard-liner—perhaps even going so far as to filibuster Trump’s nominee. Senate Republicans have warned Democrats that should they try to filibuster Trump’s nominees, they could deploy the so-called “nuclear option” and move

“With each passing disappointment, people want to make sure this is not just someone who looks conservative, but is virtually guaranteed to be conservative on the bench,” said one veteran of past GOP Supreme Court confirmation fights, Curt Levey of Freedomworks and the Committee for Justice. The desire for a justice who is all but a sure conservative vote also seems to have limited Trump’s list to sitting judges, all with a substantial record of written decisions. Those clos

Wade Henderson and Curt Levey talked about President Obama’s nomination of D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick Garland to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, as well as the history of the nominating process.

In an op-ed at FoxNews, Curt Levey writes that while the nation's campuses are hosts to the most prominent battles in the war on free sp

Free speech has recently been losing its battle with political correctness. Events on campuses including Yale and the University of Missouri