Janice Rogers:
Following a successful Senate filibuster of her original nomination in 2004, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has been re nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Justice Brown is the quintessential activist jurist, incapable of separating her hard-right, out-of-the-mainstream personal philosophy from her judicial decision-making. In articles and public speeches, she espouses a radically restrictive view of the government's ability to regulate economic and business interests and a radically expansive view of the judiciary's role in striking down laws intended to serve the common good. Her judicial record is the embodiment of these views. In voting - almost always as a lone dissenter - to strike down property regulations, invalidate worker and consumer protections and severely restrict the application of civil rights statutes, she has repeatedly misconstrued or ignored precedent, brazenly condemned U.S. Supreme Court rulings, and paid almost no deference to the considered policy judgments of the people's representatives in the legislature. Indeed, Justice Brown's colleagues on the California Supreme Court, including her conservative colleagues, have openly criticized her for misrepresenting state and federal court holdings, flouting the legislature's will, and trying to remake the law in order to impose her own views - in one case chiding her for seeking to "impos
personal theory of political economy on the people of a democratic state."1 The Alliance for Justice opposes Justice Brown's nomination. The Senate should not confirm her.
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