![]() LaNita King, campaign director at Demand Justice, who also spoke on the state court’s panel, underscored the need for a long term plan to balance the state courts that goes beyond asking people to vote in the midterms. People’s Parity Project will also have someone focused on state courts starting in a few weeks, Coleman said. The project includes an online tool with information about the composition of state courts and how those jurists are selected. “State courts are our last line of defense,” said Rachel Bracken, regional state courts manager at Alliance for Justice, who spoke on a panel about state court organizing.Īlliance for Justice, which has been advocating on judicial nominations for more than 40 years, introduced a state court project June 23, the day before the Dobbs decision. But speakers representing progressive groups also expressed cautious optimism about installing like minded judges and justices at the state court level. There was a sense of pessimism at the event that the conservative-majority court is a poised to strike down policies progressives support. “The right knew that if they succeeded at the federal level, this was going to move to the state courts, so they’ve been preparing for that and the left, once again, is behind,” Coleman said Saturday at a conference the organization hosted in Washington.įocus on building a progressive legal pipeline for state courts and educating people about how those judges are selected was among the topics discussed at the weekend conference held two weeks after the high court’s ruling overturning federal protection of abortion rights in Dobbs v. “Lots of folks are already focused on state courts, unfortunately they’re all on the right,” Molly Coleman, executive director of the progressive young lawyers group People’s Parity Project. ![]() Progressives are paying more attention to state courts in an attempt to protect abortion access and other priorities while acknowledging they’re playing catch up.
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