WASHINGTON, DC – Today, ahead of the latest Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, Accountable.US is launching its Judicial Nominations Watch website, a new clearinghouse for everything you need to know about Trump’s out-of-touch nominees. Accountable.US’s Judicial Nominations Watch is a one-stop shop for investigative research reports on Trump’s judicial nominees, exposing their radical records and the corporate and far-right interests propping them up.

“In his first term, Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress, and their special interest allies launched an all-out crusade to capture the judiciary, undermine our fundamental freedoms, and impose an ideological agenda to control our lives. Not only is Trump picking up right where he left off, he’s taking his dangerous campaign even further by handpicking judges who will put loyalty to the President ahead of the Constitution,” said Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone. “Trump’s judicial nominations have a history of rolling back Americans’ fundamental freedoms and putting their ideological agenda before impartiality – and we won’t stop until their dangerous records come to light.”

Already, Accountable.US watchdog research has unearthed major red flags on Trump’s judicial nominees, including revealing that judicial nominee Ed Artau appears to have weaponized his current judicial post to help Trump in a lawsuit, at the same time that he was seeking a lifetime appointment to the Southern District of Florida from the President. We also uncovered that judicial nominees Joshua Divine and Maria Lanahan are at the center of the extreme crusade to resurrect a court case banning Mifepristone.

Accountable.US’s Judicial Nominations Watch features research reports on the nominees the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear today, including: 

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