Justice Jackson said it plainly: "Public confidence is really all the judiciary has. That's our currency." So why is the Court issuing unexplained emergency orders that gut voting rights and let Trump's agenda take effect with zero reasoning? The Roberts Court is empowering the already powerful, and the public knows it. This is the moment to reform the Supreme Court–before it’s too late to save what’s left of our rights and freedoms. @nytimes @amarimow @aishvaryakavi: nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/po…

A Trump judicial nominee just told the Senate that January 6th was... trespass. Not an attack, just a trespass. That's the person Fetterman greenlit for a lifetime seat on the federal bench in Pennsylvania. We're not letting that go quietly. Read more in @PhillyInquirer: inquirer.com/politics/pennsy…

Judge Traynor signed a letter to Columbia's president about campus protests. Nobody asked him to. He just did it. But at his hearing, @SenAdamSchiff asked him who won the 2020 election. Too controversial, Traynor said. Can't touch it. He'll weigh in on campus politics voluntarily. He won't answer a basic question about our democracy under oath. Judge Traynor is a crony auditioning for Trump, just like the 50 Trump judicial nominees before him. And he's up for a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

"Gobbledygook." That's @SenPeterWelch's word for what Judge Traynor did at his confirmation hearing instead of answering a straight question. Traynor personally signed a letter calling Columbia University an "incubator of bigotry" — a political act, unprompted. But ask him who won the 2020 election? Suddenly that's too political to answer. This is what a loyalty test looks like. Trump's crony judges won't tell the truth. They have no business with a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

By a vote of 50-44, the Senate confirmed Anthony J. Powell to be US District Judge for the District of Kansas. Not voting: Senators Bennet, Blackburn, Graham, Shaheen, Smith, & Tillis.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Senator Richard Blumenthal just exposed Trump Administration judicial nominees for being unwilling to admit that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Donald Trump's nominees are still pedaling insane 2020 conspiracies. This should be disqualifying.

"The White House has a new script. It knows that peddling the Big Lie is a political loser. So it’s now directing its judicial nominees to use bizarre qualifiers like “by law” Joe Biden won the 2020 election. “Joe Biden won the 2020 election. He beat Donald Trump. January 6th was an insurrection and an attack on the Capitol. That’s it. “These aren’t controversial or in question - they’re facts. “If a judicial nominee can’t say those facts - outright - they can’t be independent from Trump. They should not have blue-slips returned on their behalf by Senate Democrats for their nominations. And they should absolutely not be given lifetime seats on the federal judiciary.” -Statement from Demand Justice President Josh Orton (@joshorton) on Today's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

The 2020 election results are not a political controversy to anyone except Trump. It's why @SenBlumenthal called out Trump’s judicial nominee, Judge Daniel M. Traynor, for refusing to say who won the 2020 election. Traynor was before the Senate Judiciary Committee to demonstrate independence, but instead, protected and perpetuated lies that the Capitol was not attacked and that Trump won the 2020 election. Trump demands loyalty to him, not the Constitution and the truth. Trump’s judicial nominees are up for lifetime appointments on Circuit Courts that will decide Americans’ futures for decades to come. If they cannot tell the truth, they have no reason to be confirmed to these seats of power.

Senator Cornyn says Americans deserve judges who decide cases “irrespective of politics or popular opinion.” Also Senator Cornyn: backing judicial nominees who won’t affirm the 2020 election results or the fact that our Capitol was attacked on January 6. judiciary.senate.gov/committ…

Sen. Kennedy just said the quiet part out loud, and is making our point about the danger of these noms: they're not answering factual questions because they're afraid of Donald Trump. That's the whole ballgame. They're beholden to him.

Senator Grassley and Senator Britt may not like our work, but they are the ones enabling an authoritarian president who wants to undermine elections.  They are the ones voting for Trump's judicial nominees who lie about the 2020 election and refuse to say January 6th was an attack - just to appease Donald Trump's ego. They are the ones clinging to a blue-slip tradition over fundamental questions about right and wrong in our democracy.  We are proud of our work. And we certainly won't stop.

All eyes are on today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Why? Because nominee Michael Martin supposedly promised two Democratic senators that he would become the first of Trump’s second-term judicial picks to be honest about the 2020 election and January 6th. Will he actually contradict the president? Or will he and other nominees simply use new hedge words to cover for the same Trump lies? Here's the reality: Trump spent the weekend lying about the election on Meet the Press. He floated using taxpayer dollars for people convicted of assaulting police officers on J6. Our new GQR poll of 1,800 voters across nine Senate battleground states is clear: pardons for January 6th rioters and lying about the 2020 election are very unpopular among voters. Americans are paying attention to whether Democrats hold the line or hand Trump a pass. Watch the hearing live at 10:15am ET: judiciary.senate.gov/committ… #NoCronyJudges

Abraham Lincoln warned that if the Supreme Court gets to make all the calls, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." He was right. Look at what this Court has done: gutted your voting rights, handed billionaires the economy, poisoned your drinking water, stripped the right to make decisions about your own body. We can't let up.

BREAKING: @SenatorSlotkin and @SenGaryPeters just returned blue slips for Trump judicial nominee Michael Martin, joining Fetterman as the only Senate Democrats to greenlight a Trump nominee this term. Trump judicial nominees have refused to answer two basic questions: Who won the 2020 election? And what happened on January 6? Senator Slotkin says Martin made a commitment to telling the truth about the 2020 election, J6, and whether Trump can legally run for a third term. A lifetime seat on the federal bench shouldn't go to anyone who won't tell the truth about democracy. People are getting the message. So we're watching. Not just for the right answer, but for whether those answers actually mean something when it counts. The bar isn't "better than the rest." The bar is the truth, under oath, with consequences. #NoCronyJudges

Trump won't let go of January 6th, but Senate Republicans can't afford it. Watch our President @joshorton share the numbers on what it means for battleground races on @MSNOWNews.

First, Trump turned the DOJ into his personal law firm. Now he wants the federal courts in his power, too, filled with loyalists who peddle his Big Lie. There's no excuse for any Democrat to vote yes on Trump’s judicial nominees. None. #NoCronyJudges