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April 2, 2024

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Groups urge U.S. Senate panel’s chair to conduct oversight of ‘judge shopping’

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

A coalition of progressive advocacy groups and civil rights organizations urged U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, to use his oversight power to address “judge shopping,” a tactic used by conservative litigants to bring lawsuits in courts where they are effectively guaranteed to have a sympathetic jurist hear their case.

In a letter to Durbin, 23 groups including Alliance for Justice, Demand Justice and Reproductive Freedom for All said it appeared that the judiciary’s top policymaking body had “watered down” a policy designed to curb judge shopping following Republican opposition. Read more about the letter.

Read the letter here.

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