Knowledge is power, and transparency is knowledge. The Voter Reference Foundation publishes voter lists that are already lawful public information, but often kept from the public by high fees from secretaries of state. How a person voted is not revealed; but the voter database is a critical tool for voter roll maintenance. As usual, Democrats blocked this effort at...
Judge Mark Walker of the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida is an Obama appointee who sees voter “discrimination” lurking everywhere. Because of his liberal record, it was no surprise that he recently shut down Florida’s new election integrity laws by claiming requirements to provide ID to vote and stricter controls on drop boxes would “have a...
President Trump’s selection of his second Supreme Court appointment, the Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, is heralded as a Republican victory. The media and both parties are singularly focused on the confirmation of Kavanaugh’s appointment. But with all the focus on this nomination, the Senate itself is ignoring equally important nominations: judges for the lower courts. The...
Michael Lissner June 29, 2016 When we launched our judicial database, we shared our plan to show the cases written by each judge. As of today, we’re pleased to share that we’ve launched the first iteration of that endeavor. If you pull up any judge, say, Sonia Sotomayor, you’ll see a new section at the bottom that looks like this: This listing...
Michael Lissner July 27, 2016 We’re proud to share that as of today we’ve added campaign finance data to our database of judges. This update links judges in the CourtListener system to their fundraising profiles in the FollowTheMoney.org database, allowing researchers and members of the public a new way to understand judges elected in State Supreme Court...
Michael Lissner January 23, 2017 We’re proud to share that we’ve now linked together our database of judges and our database of oral argument recordings. This means that as of now if you look at the profile page for a judge, you may see a list of oral argument recordings for cases that judge heard. For example, on the page for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there...
First-of-its-kind suit seeks to repeal discriminatory voting ban, alleging it violates a 150+ year-old Reconstruction Era law The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s felony disenfranchisement law has merit and can proceed. The ACLU of Virginia, WilmerHale, and Protect Democracy filed the suit last year...