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Left-Wing Activist Groups Seek To Make SCOTUS A Central 2024 Election Issue: ‘Captured By Right-Wing Extremists’

A coalition of left-wing activists has launched an advertising campaign to make the Supreme Court a key issue in the 2024 election, NBC News reported Monday.

The United for Democracy campaign kicked off Monday, with the first $1 million in ad purchases being broadcast in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, Montana and Washington, D.C., where key Senate elections are being held. I plan to Around NBC.His 1 minute ad in the group spot It accuses the Supreme Court of being “prisoned by right-wing extremists” and calls on voters to “tell Congress to curb the dangerous Supreme Court.”

“Governments shouldn’t be making health care decisions for the people I serve,” said a Catholic priest who identified himself as Father Rick in the video.

This ad is about the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Medical Institution, which overturned Roe v. Wade, and the New York Rifle and Pistol Association’s decision to repeal New York’s concealed carry law. mentioning. Recent rulings limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate under the Clean Water Act in Bruen v. and Sackett v. EPA. (Related: Planned Custody Boosts Court Burden, Judge Term Limits)

“The Supreme Court has made it harder to keep my family safe,” the mother of a Virginia Tech shooting survivor told viewers.

Organizations supporting the campaign include Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Federation of American Teachers, National Education Association, League of Conservation Voters, March For Our Lives, Alliance For Justice.

In May, Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey’s introduction of a bill that would add four seats to the Supreme Court, voicing its support for the trial.

The Alliance for Justice has been at the forefront of that. motion Judge Clarence Thomas has asked to resign after reports he failed to disclose a cost-sponsored trip and other financial dealings he had with friend billionaire Harlan Crow, a legal expert previously told the Daily Caller. He told the News Foundation that the report was intended to influence. He ignored public opinion and failed to expose wrongdoing.

“Today, far-right judges are abusing their power, breaking judicial norms and ignoring decades of judicial precedent to impose their own radical policies on our country,” said the United Democratic Party. website state. “These judges are not abiding by the law, making policy decisions that limit the freedoms of people across the country, and their grip on power shows no signs of abating.”

Campaign director Stasha Rose told NBC that future ads could support specific reforms like the Supreme Court Code of Ethics, denial laws, tougher financial disclosure requirements and courtroom cramming. rice field.

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