Liberal nonprofit runs multimillion-dollar campaign to scare moms into supporting Biden

A liberal nonprofit will spend millions to feed information about the Supreme Court to change mothers in the state in an effort to turn them against former President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported.

Demand Justice, an organization founded to oppose Trump's judicial nominations, will spend $2 million on mobilization efforts and ads in Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Ohio, Montana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with the goal of convincing mothers of not supporting the former president, the Post. reported. The campaign will focus on how a Supreme Court made up of Trump appointees could affect issues related to abortion, firearms and health care in the coming years.

“This is about empowering mothers to know exactly the kind of threats the MAGA Supreme Court poses to the well-being of their families,” Demand Justice CEO Maggie Jo Buchanan told the Post. “It's understandable that everyday moms aren't always connected to all the ins and outs of every decision the court issues or every questionable action certain judges take, so we're here to fill that knowledge gap.”

While Democratic politicians and liberal activists criticized the Supreme Court with accusations of partisan bias and ideological extremism, a counting of the judgments of the court this term tells a different story. Approximately 46% of court decisions this term were unanimous, and of the 22 6-3 decisions, only half were decided with a clear ideological divide among the justices.

“This is a court [where] conservatives lose quite a bit,” Texas South Law School professor Josh Blackman previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is not a right-wing court.”

Demand Justice's $2 million swing state push is part of a larger $10 million effort to try to prevent the Supreme Court from becoming more conservative. seconds to the politician The group's efforts will range from conducting research on potential Supreme Court nominees to mobilizing demographics it believes could be affected by the court and advocating for judicial reforms.

The organization believes the Supreme Court should be expanded and adopt an enforceable code of ethics, for example, Politico reported. Demand Justice shares a major donor, the Sandler Foundation, with ProPublicaa non-profit news organization that has published several short stories alleging that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas engaged in ethics violations.

President Biden has now appointed 200 diverse judges to the federal judiciary

In courts across the country, Biden has added new perspectives and backgrounds to reflect the rich tapestry of American experiences and to create a judiciary that works for all.

— Demand Justice (@WeDemandJustice) May 22, 2024

It's unclear how much money Demand Justice has to sway public opinion ahead of the 2024 election. The nonprofit advocacy arm of the organization it had just $3.3 billion in net assets as of 2022, the most recent year for which tax returns are available, indicating that it has attracted significant funding since then.

Demand Justice PAC, a political committee associated with the nonprofit, had just under $1 million on hand from March and has been mostly expense money in consulting and communications services this cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records.

As Demand Justice prepares to pour cash into swing states, main donors they are threatening it decrease funding to Biden after his poor performance in the first presidential debate in June. Cuini political report recently Updated his 2024 election forecast predicting that Arizona, Georgia and Nevada are now more likely to vote for Trump than Biden, a decision that followed Trump's improved poll numbers after the debate and widespread calls for the president quit the race

Demand Justice did not immediately respond to DCNF's request for comment.

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