Alliance For Justice - Judicial Advocacy

Judicial Advocacy

AFJ launched the Judicial Selection Project (JSP) in 1985 “to expose and combat the Reagan administration’s plans to pack the federal judiciary with hard-line conservative jurists.” Through the JSP, AFJ monitors and investigates judicial nominations at all levels of the federal branch, and encourages public participation in the confirmation process. They played a role in the defeat of Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1987. They supported the nomination of Roger Gregory, the first African American judge in the Fourth Circuit in 2001. They played a role in efforts to support ten Senate filibusters against President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.