Resources: Judging The Environment: Judging the Environment: Federal Judicial Nominations

Resources

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Defenders of Wildlife

Senate Judiciary Committee Judicial Nomination Materials: 111th Congress

Senate Judiciary Committee: Judicial Confirmations: 111^th Congress

Link to DOJ Website: Judicial Vacancies & Nominations Charts & More

American Constitution Society's JudicialNominations.org website

American Bar Association Ratings for Judicial Nominees

Alliance for Justice’s Judicial Selection Snapshot

Link to CQ Judge Tracker Details Status of All Obama Judicial Nominees [no longer updated]

Map of U.S. Courts of Appeals territories

Constitutional Accountability Center (previously the Community Rights Counsel) Community Rights Counsel was a partner on the Judging the Environment project. Visit CRC's archived website for additional useful materials, including a report jointly released by Earthjustice, Community Rights Counsel, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Alliance for Justice, documenting the threat that anti-environmental judicial activists sitting on the federal bench pose to protections for our air, water, and land.

Environmental Law Institute's Endangered Environmental Laws Program
More information on environmentalists' concerns about the need for a a fair, independent judiciary.

BACKGROUND

Justice Scalia's "Slash and Burn" Attack on Access to the Courts
(article by Earthjustice Senior Editor Tom Turner, 4/27/05)

"Advice And Consent"
The Senate's Constitutional Role On Judicial Appointments

Environmental and public interest coalition call for a bipartisan commission to amicably and fairly resolve the current differences between the White House and Michigan’s Senators over Michigan 6th Circuit vacancies (7/29/03)

Letter from environmental coalition resubmitting to current Congress & Judiciary Committee 9/27/02 letter on the importance of the DC Circuit and the need to carefully review nominees (1/28/03)

Editorial on new DC Circuit nominations "should await a more comprehensive understanding of its needs" (The Washington Post, 12/19/02)

Hostile Environment: How Activist Judges Threaten Our Air, Water, and Land Report documents the threat that anti-environmental judicial activists sitting on the federal bench pose to protections for our air, water, and land (2001).

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BACKGROUND

Hostile Environment: How Activist Judges Threaten Our Air, Water, and Land Report documents the threat that anti-environmental judicial activists sitting on the federal bench pose to protections for our air, water, and land (2001).

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