Watchdog of 3rd branch. Est. in 2014. We advocate for SCOTUS term limits, a SCOTUS ethics code, cameras in courts & other fixes that 70+% of Americans support.
Sep 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fix the Court does not take a position on judicial nominees — never has; never will.
But we (our board & ED are all Jewish) can't be silent in the face of a ridiculous attack from the right against CA7 nominee Rebecca Taibleson. (1/4)
The attack was in part based on the fact that Taibleson belongs to a synagogue that's welcoming of LGBT Jews & that she's donated to Jewish Federation, which has a diverse array of programs for a diverse array of Jews. (2/4)
Sep 7, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A thread on recusals, which got all of 2 minutes of chatter the last 3 days:
Judge Kavanaugh listed 136 times he recused from a D.C. Circuit case in his @senjudiciary questionnaire (judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…). He couldn't recall the reason for 90 of them. 90 of them! That's nuts.
Let's start by looking at cases where he does recall why he recused. There's CREW v Office of Admin., on the millions of lost WH e-mails, i.e., the parody that writes itself. There's Jud. Cmte. v Miers, on the firing of U.S. attorneys. There's Wilson v Libby on the Plame affair.
