The ‘Alliance for Justice’ Again

Yesterday, I documented how the Alliance for Justice’s (“AFJ”) letter, and its associated press release—are no longer available on the AFJ’s website. That letter, from 350 academics to Senate Majority Leader McConnell, explained that it was the Senate’s “constitutional duty to give President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a prompt and fair hearing and a timely vote.”  

One reader has suggested that there was nothing untoward here. It may have been nothing more than “records management.” Now, at the old link, where the AFJ letter had appeared, the AFJ website now states:

With voting already underway, now is not the time to ram through a Supreme Court Justice. Alliance for Justice pledges to fight this nominee with everything we can.

 

Nothing to see here folks—just move along.

 

Seth

Seth Barrett Tillman, The ‘Alliance for Justice’ Again, New Reform Club (Oct. 21, 2020, 4:01 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-alliance-for-justice-again.html>; 

My prior posts on this topic: 

Seth Barrett Tillman, The Alliance for Justice’s 2016 Letter to McConnell has gone Missing!, New Reform Club (Oct. 20, 2020, 3:53 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-alliance-for-justices-2016-letter.html>; 

Seth Barrett Tillman, The Two Discourses: How Non-Originalists Popularize Originalism and What that Means, New Reform Club (Mar. 28, 2016, 9:22 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-two-discourses-how-non-originalists.html>.