RSLC Pledges Record Investments in 2022 State Supreme Court Races

Releases Video On Effort to Fight Back Against Court-Driven Liberal Gerrymandering

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The Republican State Leadership Committee’s Judicial Fairness Initiative (JFI) announced today the committee’s latest effort to defend democracy from liberal, activist state court judges across the country who are taking the redistricting process out of the hands of elected legislators and gerrymandering Democrats into more and lasting power. JFI is committed to spending more resources on state Supreme Court races in 2022 than in any year in the committee’s history to better combat Democrats’ ‘Sue Until It’s Blue’ redistricting strategy currently being deployed by Eric Holder and his National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). The announcement follows the findings of an internal report compiled by the RSLC that outlines how the nearly $58 million Democrats have invested in key state Supreme Court races since 2015 is allowing them to effectively gerrymander in a number of key states. 

“Democrats have failed to sell their radical, anti-democratic policies to the American people––but rather than change their unpopular agenda, they’ve resorted to state courts to change the rules,” said RSLC President Dee Duncan. “While the RSLC’s Judicial Fairness Initiative has already had success stopping court-driven liberal gerrymandering in states like Wisconsin, defending democracy and keeping the redistricting process in the hands of the people in 2030 will require historic investments in state Supreme Court races in 2022.” 

JFI’s report also notes that, “Republicans risk an even worse fate in the 2030 redistricting process if we fail to increase the resources we are currently spending in state court races to keep pace with the Democrats.” The most the RSLC has ever invested in state Supreme Court races in a single year came in 2018 when JFI spent just over $4.3 million.

The RSLC today also released a new video highlighting its 2022 spending commitment and the importance of fighting back against national liberals like Eric Holder and their strategy to gerrymander Democrats into power through state Supreme Courts. 

Watch “Stop Their ‘Sue to Blue” HERE. 

TRANSCRIPT

NARRATOR: Rising prices. Surging crime. And students locked out of the classroom. Unable to sell their socialist agenda to voters, Democrats cling to power the only way they can. They run to the courthouse, yanking control out of the hands of elected legislators and handing over the redistricting process to their friends on the courts. 

HOLDER CLIP: What we have done at the NDRC is file lawsuits in state courts using the state constitutions and redrawn the lines that way.

NARRATOR: It’s simple, if they don’t like a map, they sue until it’s blue.

HOLDER CLIP: In Texas, and Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, we’ll bring lawsuits.

OBAMA CLIP: We have to change the system to reflect our better selves. 

NARRATOR: For years Democrats have spent millions installing liberal, activist judges on the court who will take their side on redistricting. Judges are meant to be umpires, calling balls and strikes, following the law. Not the last line of defense for socialism. That’s why the RSLC’s Judicial Fairness Initiative is fighting back. The only national effort focused on protecting our courts. Electing judges who defend the constitution, not political agendas. And this year, we’re investing more in the program than ever before. Because there’s more at stake than ever before. To elect conservative judges. To roll back the liberal takeover of our courts.  To defend our democracy and the rule of law. We must stop their Sue to Blue. JFI is up for the fight. Are you?

ABOUT JFI

Led by Barack Obama and Eric Holder, Democrats are fighting to transform the traditional role of the judiciary from an arbiter of the facts and the law to an advocate for the liberal political agenda. The RSLC’s Judicial Fairness Initiative (JFI) is the only national political effort focused exclusively on halting this transformation by protecting the election and selection of state court judges. JFI provides critical information about judicial candidates in an environment where voters are routinely left in the dark about a candidate’s qualifications for the bench. JFI fills that gap by providing the facts and analysis voters need to cast informed votes for judicial office. Since its formation, JFI has raised and spent more than $21 million in states across the country, including Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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