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Lisa Graves

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Lisa Graves is the founder and Executive Director of True North Research. She has served as  Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Policy Development/Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice under Attorneys General Janet Reno and John Ashcroft, as Chief Counsel for Nominations for Senator Patrick Leahy on the US Senate Judiciary Committee, and in other government positions. She has worked as an adjunct law professor at George Washington University Law School and the Senior Legislative Strategist for the ACLU on national security and civil liberties, and led the Center on Media and Democracy.

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A Brief History of the Right-Wing Takeover of the US Judiciary

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The history of the Right’s campaign to seize the courts reveals how closely the electoral and judicial arenas are linked, and how politics shapes the interpretation of the law. The structural changes that the Right has put into place are going to take decades to address, not only through Congressional action but also through informed action on the part of people.