Demand Justice is a politically

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American

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legal advocacy organization. It focuses on motivating left-leaning voters based on its goal of changing the composition of the American federal judiciary, as well as encouraging the

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to confirm progressive nominees to judicial positions and to expand the

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. It was established in 2018 by

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and

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, originally as a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund. In May 2021, when Demand Justice split off from the Sixteen Thirty Fund to become a separate organization, ''

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'' described Demand Justice as the "tip of the progressive spear in battles over the makeup of the federal judiciary." Among its first major activities after being founded in 2018 was its extensive spending on television ads opposing the confirmation of

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to the Supreme Court. It also spent $1 million on an ad campaign supporting the confirmation of

Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson ( ; born September 14, 1970) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 20 ...

after running a public campaign encouraging

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to retire from the Supreme Court. Multiple Republican Senators cited Demand Justice's support of Jackson as evidence that she supports packing the Supreme Court, despite her refusal to say whether she supports such a move.

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