NEW: Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose to the Judiciary Committee her participation in a 2006 two-page ad in the South Bend Times calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned and ending the “barbaric legacy” of the law, two Democratic committee aides confirm to NBC News
Victoria Nourse of Georgetown Law was special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and went through the same disclosure process when President Obama nominated her to the 7th circuit court.
“She should have disclosed it,” said Nourse. “In my experience,
I would have had to do it,” especially when it pertains to a contentious issue likely to come before the court.
The paperwork requirements for judicial nominees are very specific and strict. It look months to fill them out, she said. “You’re supposed to give anything you
have on the internet and all of your endorsements. DOJ told me if someone came to your door and I signed a petition I had to give them the name of that group.”
A White House spokesman said because Barrett did not write or edit the ad, it does not fall within the scope .
Justice Gorsuch during his 2017 nomination included a Sept., 2004 letter to the editor at Vanity Fair he signed along with 99 other former SC law clerk signatories.
One of the most important & overlooked religious movements of our time is the New Apostolic Reformation -- and its adherents do believe Trump came from God.
St. Isidore is represented by the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative. Notre Dame law professor Nicolle Stelle Garnett, Barrett’s personal friend of 20 years, has been the effort’s biggest champion within Notre Dame and working with St. Isidore from the start.
The legal team representing the virtual charter school board, the Alliance Defending Freedom, helped develop arguments that led to the end of Roe.
It is significantly funded by donor-advised funds that allow their patrons to keep their identities secret but which receive large
1. Leo and his network of nonprofits are either directly or indirectly connected to a majority of amicus briefs filed on behalf of conservative parties in 7 of the biggest recent cases.
2. Multiple instances of language in the amicus briefs appearing in the court’s opinions.
3. Drom Dobbs: Alito said abortion had been a crime as far back as the 13th Century.
👉Major orgs representing historians disagree.
The argument originated with Joseph Dellapenna, a now-retired law professor who introduced it at an anti-abortion event in the 1980’s.
History on who's behind defunding the IRS:
👉Cleta Mitchell (who played a role in Trump's false election claims) helped Ginni Thomas set up her own advocacy nonprofit and championed the successful effort.