Non-profit

Demand Justice

Website:

demandjustice.org

Tax ID:

86-3689961

Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(4)

Budget (2021):

Revenue: $5,950,317
Expenses: $1,607,530
Assets: $4,431,889

Formation:

2018

Type:

Left-Wing Judicial Nominee Advocacy Group

Former Project of:

Sixteen Thirty Fund

Executive Director:

Brian Fallon

Documents:

2021 Form 990

Application for Tax Exempt Status

Latest Tax Filing:

2022 Form 990

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Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established as a project of Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization characterized as “dark money” by critics which hosts a number of similar advocacy groups advocating for a left-wing policy agenda. 1 Demand Justice itself has been characterized by the left-leaning Center for Responsive Politics as a “liberal dark money” group. 2

According to an article on Buzzfeed News, the organization launched in May 2018 with an initial staff of 8 people. The article claims that several of the initial staff included Christopher Kang, who served within the Obama Administration by overseeing judicial nominations, and Paige Herwig, another former staffer within the Obama administration as well as former deputy general counsel to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). 3

On May 5, 2021, Demand Justice and Demand Justice Initiative both registered in Washington, D.C. as nonprofit corporations, indicating that the organizations were no longer merely projects housed by the Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund, respectively, and were pursuing separate nonprofit status. 4 5 The beneficial owner of both organizations was listed as Ezra Reese, a high-profile left-leaning lawyer formerly with the law firm Perkins Coie, and the organizations’ new Washington D.C. business address was listed as 1010 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 300. 6 7

The group is most notable for its activities opposing the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and proposing “court packing,” or adding seats to be filled by Demand Justice’s political allies to the Supreme Court. 8 9 10

Activity

In May 2018, Demand Justice launched its first media campaign against Thomas Farr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. 11

In June 2018, Demand Justice began an advertisement campaign called Ditch the List that targeted potential Supreme Court nominees to replace outgoing Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. The campaign specifically focused on Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.12

Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation (2018)

Demand Justice, in anticipation of the announcement of President Trump’s July 2018 nominee to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s vacated seat on the Supreme Court, launched a campaign to pressure Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to vote against any nominee from Trump’s shortlist of candidate judges. Demand Justice claimed that Sen. Collins must vote against any nominee in order to preserve her stance on reproductive rights.13

Following the Trump administration’s nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Demand Justice organized protesters to line the halls outside the room where a number of U.S. senators met on September 4, 2018, to conduct confirmation hearings. The protesters dressed as handmaids, referencing the 1985 book “A Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, where women are denied basic freedoms. Demand Justice released a statement which read: 14

“Right now in American, far too many women of color cannot access safe, affordable healthcare and the ability to decide whether, when and how to raise thriving families is out of reach.”

Demand Justice hosts StopKavanaugh.com.15

Attacks on Justice Brett Kavanaugh

In April 2019, Demand Justice sent a letter to Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) requesting he seek out documents from the National Archives that the group claims reveal Kavanaugh’s preexisting stance on Roe v. Wade, prior to his confirmation to the Supreme Court. A 27-page memo was included in the letter from Demand Justice and other pro-abortion groups. 16

In June 2019, Demand Justice announced its intent to demand the Senate Judiciary Committee unearth documents from the U.S. National Archives which would supposedly prove that Justice Kavanaugh gave false information to the U.S. Senate during his confirmation process in 2018.

Demand Justice has paid for digital advertisements on Facebook demanding George Mason University halt Justice Brett Kavanaugh from co-teaching a summer course in 2019. The group demanded the university issue an apology from the for allowing Kavanaugh to teach the course. 17

Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett (2020)

During the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Demand Justice ran an advertisement that claimed Barrett and other “far-right Supreme Court” justices would help President Donald Trump “steal” the 2020 election.” 18

According to Politico, Demand Justice paid for a 7-figure ad buy to oppose Barrett’s confirmation in September 2020. 19

Supreme Court List Under Biden

In March 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Attorney General Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Jackson, a former law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer, had previously been listed on Demand Justice’s Supreme Court shortlist. 20 A former public defender, Jackson was confirmed to the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. in 2013 and is widely considered a Supreme Court front-runner if an opening on the high court occurs during Biden’s presidency.  21

In March 2022, Axios reported that Demand Justice had announced a $1 million ad campaign in support of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation. 22 Axios also reported that tax documents from Demand Justice and the Demand Justice Initiative anticipated a combined budget of roughly $11.7 million in 2022, and that the organizations were willing to spend far more than $1 million, reportedly because poltical groups on both sides of the aisle were “looking to milk the [confirmation] process for every ounce of poltical advantage” in the 2022 midterm elections. 23

Trump Judicial Confirmations

Demand Justice posted a video on its Twitter page on February 27, 2019 criticizing Neomi Rao, President Trump’s nominee for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The video accused Rao of holding “far right conservative” views against feminism and that holding such views should disqualify her from holding a position in any court. 24

In March 2019, Demand Justice released its “grades” of Senate Democrats, rating their performance in halting the appointment of Trump-appointed federal judges. 25 The report led to further advertisement campaigns against Democratic Senators with low approval ratings. 26

In January 2019, Demand Justice and Data for Progress released a study comparing President Trump’s judicial nominees with those of prior U.S. presidents to unveil “how dangerously far to the right” the Supreme Court has supposedly become during his administration. 27

Support for H.R. 1 (2019)

In May 2019, Demand Justice endorsed H.R. 1 (the “For the People Act”) which, among other major revisions to U.S. elections, would seek statehood for Washington, D.C. 28

“Rise Up for Roe”

On August 1, 2018, Demand Justice announced the start of its “Rise Up for Roe” tour beginning August 11 in Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Denver, Maine, Virginia, Los Angeles, Iowa, Texas, Nevada, and Arizona.

Tour speakers included Symone Sanders, Brittany Packnett, Alyssa Mastromonaco, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, Jessica Valenti, Karine Jean-Pierre, actress Alyssa Milano, National Women’s Law Center president Fatima Goss-Graves, NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue, National Domestic Workers Alliance political director Jess Morales-Rocketto, Planned Parenthood vice president Dawn Laguens, Jess McIntosh, Daily Kos writer Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, and Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden.29

The tour is funded by Demand Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Planned Parenthood Action Fund.30

Supreme Court Decision Protest (2019)

On June 26, 2019, the last day of the year’s Supreme Court term, Demand Justice held a rally at the Supreme Court with two dozen progressive organizations in response to the Court’s major decisions on two cases, one on partisan redistricting and another on adding a citizenship question to the census. 31 32 34

The organizations at the rally were:

Democracy Initiative, Alliance for Justice, Common Cause, People for the American Way, Bread for the World, United Church of Christ, Church World Service, Nuns on the Bus, National Council of Jewish Women, CASA, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), NAACP, Color of Change, Sunrise Movement, League of Conservation Voters (LCV), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), National Women’s Law Center, National LGBTQ Task Force, National Partnership for Women and Families, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Human Rights Campaign.

The Atlantic Op-Ed

In August 2019, Demand Justice co-founders Brian Fallon and Christopher Kang wrote an op-ed in the Atlantic that outlined their philosophy and opinions towards judicial nominations. It is an advice piece to Democrats outlining how they should approach judicial nominations in a post-Trump era. Fallon and Kang claim that Republicans have long appointed corporate firm lawyers tied to special interest groups to prominent positions in the federal judiciary. Kang and Fallon believe that such lawyers side with corporations over the people through championing various legal agendas, such as getting rid of restrictions on political contributions during elections and battling unions.

Fallon and Kang urge Democrats to vehemently oppose all Trump administration judicial nominees moving forward, and demand that the Democrats eventually institute a strict no-corporate partner policy for judicial nominees. Although this may disqualify some quality judges – they highlight President Obama nominee Justice Sonia Sotomayor – they claim it would allow for many more judges and justices similar in practice to liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 35

2019 Supreme Court Judicial Shortlist

On October 15, 2019, Demand Justice released a list of 32 lawyers and judges they recommend as possible nominees for the Supreme Court should one of the Democratic candidates become president. Of the 32 lawyers listed, none have any corporate ties as partners at major law firms. 36 Only 8 of the 32 have any judicial experience, with the rest having, at most, experience clerking for federal or state judges. 37 Demand Justice made it clear, per their website, that they are looking to increase left-of-center judicial activism; all of these choices have been advocates for radical left-of-center agendas. 38 Among these radicals is U.S. District Judge Carlton Wayne Reeves, who once compared President Trump to segregationist George Wallace. Another is Fordham University professor Zephyr Teachout, a multiple-time election loser for Attorney General of New York and a friend of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). 39 Pundits such as Judicial Crisis Network’s Carrie Severino and Mike Davis – former clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch – have criticized the “far left” nature of the candidates and have questioned their viability and credentials. 40

Demand Justice intended to use this list to “prod” the 2020 Democratic candidates. They have pressured candidates to announce that they will choose judges from the list, although no candidates have publicly announced their picks as of October 2019, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stated that she outright refuses to choose anyone unless she wins the election. 41

Professor Pamela S. Karlan

One of the lawyers on the list, Professor Pamela S. Karlan from Stanford University, appeared before the House on Dec. 4 to voice her support for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. 42 She made headlines after illustrating the constitution’s prohibitions against titles of hereditary nobility by making a joke about the name of President Trump’s son Barron. The comment caused many Republicans in congress and even First Lady Melania Trump to issue statements condemning the professor’s choice to joke about a child’s name. 43

Facebook Advertisements

In 2020, Demand Justice spent between $196,500 and $263,916 in Facebook advertisements. (The exact figure is unknown due to the way Facebook reports its advertisements on a “minimum-maximum” range.) 44

Month (2020)Min. Amount SpentMax. Amount SpentIssue
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October$0$100Senate Judiciary Committee
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October$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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October$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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October$500$599Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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October$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
October$0$100Amy Barrett Nomination
October$0$100Amy Barrett Nomination
October$0$100Amy Barrett Nomination
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October$100$199Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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October$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
October$3,500 $4,000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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October$100$199Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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October$0$100Amy Barrett Nomination
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September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
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September$800$899Supreme Court Protest
September$500$599Supreme Court Protest
September$2,500 $3,000 Supreme Court Protest
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September$700$799Supreme Court Protest
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September$200$299Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
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September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$300$399Supreme Court Protest
September$600$699Supreme Court Protest
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September$500$599Supreme Court Protest
September$400$499Supreme Court Protest
September$500$599Supreme Court Protest
September$1,500 $2,000 Supreme Court Protest
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September$600$699Supreme Court Protest
September$4,000 $4,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$600$699Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$200$299Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
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September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Court Packing
September$100$199Court Packing
September$0$100Court Packing
September$0$100Court Packing
September$0$100Court Packing
September$800$899Amy Barrett Nomination
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September$2,000 $2,500 Amy Barrett Nomination
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September$300$399Amy Barrett Nomination
September$400$499Amy Barrett Nomination
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$300$399Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$700$799Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$2,000 $2,500 Supreme Court Protest
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September$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$300$399Supreme Court Protest
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September$500$599Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$200$299Supreme Court Protest
September$200$299Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$2,500 $3,000 Supreme Court Protest
September$200$299Supreme Court Protest
September$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$1,500 $2,000 Supreme Court Protest
September$1,500 $2,000 Supreme Court Protest
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September$200$299Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$900$999Supreme Court Protest
September$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
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September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
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September$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$1,500 $2,000 Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
September$1,500 $2,000 Supreme Court Protest
September$1,500 $2,000 Supreme Court Protest
September$500$599Supreme Court Protest
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September$0$100Supreme Court Protest
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September$300$399Supreme Court Protest
September$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$3,000 $3,500 Supreme Court Protest
September$100$199Supreme Court Protest
September$600$699Supreme Court Protest
September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September$600$699Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September$0$100Ruth Bader Ginsburg
June$0$100Supreme Court Protest
June$0$100Supreme Court Protest
June$0$100Supreme Court Protest
June$100$199Supreme Court Protest
June$0$100Supreme Court Protest
May$0$100Supreme Court Protest
May$0$100Supreme Court Protest
May$100$199Supreme Court Protest
May$0$100Supreme Court Protest
May$0$100Supreme Court Protest
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April$400$499Supreme Court Protest
April$800$899Supreme Court Protest
April$200$299Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$9,000 $1,000 Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$7,000 $8,000 Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Health Care
April$100$199Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$500$599Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$0$100Health Care
April$30,000 $35,000 Court Packing
April$2,000 $2,500 Court Packing
April$800$899Court Packing
April$1,000 $1,500 Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$25,000 $30,000 Court Packing
April$5,000 $6,000 Court Packing
April$3,000 $3,500 Court Packing
April$1,500 $2,000 Court Packing
April$6,000 $7,000 Court Packing
April$400$499Court Packing
April$10,000 $15,000 Court Packing
April$500$599Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$10,000 $15,000 Court Packing
April$900$999Court Packing
April$100$199Covid-19
April$400$499Covid-19
April$0$100Covid-19
April$0$100Covid-19
April$200$299Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$300$399Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$200$299Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Prison Release
April$500$599Prison Release
April$600$699Prison Release
April$100$199Prison Release
April$0$100Prison Release
April$0$100Prison Release
April$0$100Prison Release
April$0$100Prison Release
April$0$100Prison Release
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Court Packing
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$200$299Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
April$0$100Supreme Court Protest
March$300$399Supreme Court Protest
March$0$100Supreme Court Protest
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March$0$100Supreme Court Protest
March$300$399Supreme Court Protest
March$200$299Supreme Court Protest
March$0$100Supreme Court Protest
March$0$100Supreme Court Protest
March$200$299Supreme Court Protest
March$300$399Supreme Court Protest
March$0$100Supreme Court Protest
March$0$100Supreme Court Protest
February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
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February$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$1,000 $1,500 Susan Collins Protest
January$400$499Susan Collins Protest
January$200$299Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$400$499Susan Collins Protest
January$100$199Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
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January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$2,000 $2,500 Susan Collins Protest
January$1,500 $2,000 Susan Collins Protest
January$1,500 $2,000 Susan Collins Protest
January$100$199Susan Collins Protest
January$100$199Susan Collins Protest
January$200$299Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
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January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Court Packing
January$0$100Court Packing
January$0$100Court Packing
January$0$100Court Packing
January$0$100Court Packing
January$0$100Court Packing
January$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
January$1,000 $1,500 Supreme Court Protest
January$0$100Supreme Court Protest
January$0$100Supreme Court Protest
January$0$100Supreme Court Protest
January$0$100Supreme Court Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
January$0$100Susan Collins Protest
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Total:$196,500 $263,916

Balls and Strikes Blog

In September 2021, Demand Justice launched “Balls and Strikes” an online blogging project focusing on Supreme Court related issues from a left-leaning perspective. 45 The blog featured articles from many left-leaning contributors and legal scholars and featured a data-tracker for the political leanings of various federal courts and progress on new judicial nominations. Contributors to Balls and Strikes included prominent left-leaning journalists like editor-in-chief Jay Willis, Elie Mystal, Adam Cohen, and Madiba Dennie. 46 Some of the blog’s first articles advocated for packing the Supreme Court and attacked Justice Samuel Alito’s rulings related to public sector unions. 47 48

Former Employee Steals Funds

In November 2023, it was reported by Politico that a former employee of the organization had allegedly stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from the group before being fired the year prior in October 2022. According to the group’s 2022 990 form, roughly $291,609 was noted within its expenses as attributed to “loss,” 49 however Politico also states that it is unknown how much of the losses were attributed to the theft. 50 The 990 form also discloses that in 2022, “the organization discovered misuse of organization funds by its former finance director.” 51 According to Demand Justice spokesperson Colin Diersing, “the matter has been referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Demand Justice is working to recover the funds.” 52

Campaign Activism

2018 Midterm Election

During the recount of the 2018 Florida U.S. Senate election, an email by Demand Justice (available here) urged supporters of Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson to “help out in a variety of roles in the recount process, including observing at polls, data processing, and logistics organization.” “If you are a lawyer or have legal training and live in Florida or can travel to Florida, please sign up,” the email added.53

According to FEC filings, during the 2018 midterm elections Demand Justice spent nearly $317,000 in electioneering communication for three vulnerable Senate Democratic Senate incumbents and against two incumbent Republican senators. The politicians supported by the project included Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana), and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), who received $110,000, $100,000, and $100,000, respectively. Demand Justice also spent nearly $101,000 against Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nevada), who lost reelection, and over $7,000 against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Mississippi), who was elected.54

2020 General Election

In 2019, Demand Justice ran a digital advertisement thanking 2020 presidential candidate Julian Castro for his support of a “police overhaul” measure to prevent courts from protecting police officers on civil lawsuits of “brutality or misuse of deadly force.” 55

In March 2019, Demand Justice has aired ads attacking Republican Senators up for reelection in 2020 for their support of federal circuit court judge Chad Readler during his confirmation process. 56

The day before the 2020 general election, Demand Justice announced its initiative to reform the Supreme Court, calling the Justices who President Trump appointed to the Supreme Court “far-right” and claiming that they were prepared to help Republicans steal the election. 57 It states that it wants to add four seats, create term limits, create a “code of ethics,” and add judges to the lower courts as a part of its plan to reform the courts. 58

Following the 2020 general election, Demand Justice began campaigning and lobbying for Joe Biden to fill judicial vacancies with liberal judges. Its goal was to take advantage of the Democratic control of the Senate by appointing as many liberal judges as possible while also making up for lost opportunities to do so during President Barack Obama’s presidency. 59

Controversies

Support for Packing the Supreme Court

In March 2019, former attorney general for the Obama administration Eric Holder expressed his support for a future Democratic Party president “packing” the U.S. Supreme Court by adding additional favorable justices to it. Holder told the Yale Law National Security Group that the next Democratic president should “seriously consider adding two seats to the Supreme Court.” Holder has been the most prominent left-wing political figure to officially endorse a court packing strategy. 60

Brian Fallon supported the idea, saying: “More and more Democrats are becoming convinced that we cannot resign ourselves to the third branch of government being captive to partisan Republican forces for the next 30 years.” 61 62

On June 11, 2019 Demand Justice purchased advertisements supporting an op-ed written by former Iowa attorney general Bonnie Campbell promoting the idea of court-packing the Supreme Court. The op-ed was written in response to the anti-abortion legislation that was passed in several states that was believed to be initiated after the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. 63

In response to the number of conservative judges appointed under the Trump administration and the lack of open seats, Demand Justice again advocated for court packing at both the lower levels and the Supreme Court following the Democratic Party’s victories in the 2020 general election. 64

In April 2021, backed by Demand Justice and other left-wing groups, congressional Democrats introduced legislation to pack the Supreme Court by expanding the number of justices on the court from nine to 13, which would give liberal justices the majority. Demand Justice executive director Brian Fallon praised the proposal, saying that the bill represents “a new era where Democrats finally stop conceding the Supreme Court to Republicans.” 65

In September 2021, Demand Justice announced the launch of a $1.5 million campaign bolstering its existing advocacy for the Judiciary Act, a court-packing bill that proposed to expand the Supreme Court from nine to thirteen Justices. The campaign reportedly involved a dedicated in-house team of six staffers working with Becky Bond, a former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign strategist. The campaign would also organize an in-person lobbying day scheduled for October 2021. 66

Reports indicated that, in preparation for the campaign, Demand Justice had also hired Democratic campaign strategist Alexa Sousa as its organizing director and had recruited more than 400 volunteers to meet with Democratic lawmakers and pressure them to support the Judiciary Act. 67

Comments on Fusion GPS

In 2017, Brian Fallon defended the decision of Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer, Marc Elias, to hire Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016. 68 In regard to Elias’ hiring of Fusion GPS, Fallon said, “I am damn glad [Marc Elias] pursued this on behalf of our campaign and only regret more of [Fusion’s] material was not verified in time for the voters to learn it before the election.” 69

Attacks on Democratic Senators

In September 2019, Demand Justice resumed its attack ad campaign against Democratic senators, this time taking out “five-figure” advertisements against Senator Chris Coons (D-DE). In a news release, they claimed that Coons has voted for 18 judicial nominees that do not support the final decision of landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. Sean Coit, a spokesman for Senator Coons’ office, responded that Coons “has not voted for any nominee who opposes Brown v. Board, nor would he.” He added that the Senator “has opposed unqualified Trump nominees […] and has supported some whom he believes are qualified for their positions.” These attacks came at a critical time for Senator Coons, as he stood for reelection in the 2020 election. 70

Following the advertisements running in September, Democratic allies of Senator Coons fired back at Demand Justice for what they see as unfair attacks on the bipartisan-voting Senator. Most notably, Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) had strong words for the judicial advocacy group. Senator Durbin chastised the attacks, arguing they were “really inaccurate” and added that he had voted for many of the same nominees. He criticized the group for stepping out of line and showed full support of Senator Coons’ judicial voting record during the Trump presidency. Senator Hirono, a friend of Demand Justice, said she “personally prefer that they didn’t” smear Senator Coons. Senator Schatz said that the group did “half the job.” He continued, saying, “[o]ne part of the job is to exert pressure on Democrats to do more, but you’ve got to do the hard work of organizing the constituency behind it. […] They scratch a political itch but it doesn’t solve the structural problem of us not having enough votes.”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) was less critical of Demand Justice. He explained that it made little sense for senators to oppose judicial nominations for lawyers and judges that Demand Justice had itself recommended to the President. Meanwhile, when asked about attack ads ran by the group against him, Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) simply said, “I don’t think about them at all.”

Executive director of Demand Justice Brian Fallon doubled down on his strategy, asserting that the group intends to invest heavily in Delaware should Senator Coons continue his voting record for Trump nominations. “If that’s a record he’s proud of and feels like he can defend then he has nothing to worry about from our ads,” he said.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) suggested that Demand Justice was being politically short sighted in their ads against Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), saying,“[i]f you’re going to have a strategy to muscle you better understand the people enough to know that it’ll work.” He offered that most Senators do not respond to outside pressure when making a decision on how to cast their votes. 71

Politico‘s Report on Sixteen Thirty Fund

In November 2019, Politico released a report on the Sixteen Thirty Fund and their $114 million efforts in helping Democratic candidates win elections in 2018 and in attacking Justice Brett Kavanaugh by funding Demand Justice. Politico highlighted how the spending was “fueled by massive anonymous donations” and explained that the donors can remain anonymous due to federal laws protecting “social welfare” groups. The report also mentioned Sixteen Thirty’s connections to Arabella Advisors and noted that Arabella was “founded by former Clinton administration appointee Eric Kessler.” 72

A few days later, the Washington Post published an editorial about Politico’s report, decrying the ability of dark money groups to “push causes and issues before voters” without disclosing “what special interests might lurk behind” their ads and campaigns. After detailing what Politico learned about Sixteen Thirty’s spending and activities, the Post called on Congress to “change the law and force social welfare groups to identify their donors in full.” 73

Smear of D.C. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Griffith

In March 2020, Demand Justice had allegedly filed an ethics complaint against D.C. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Griffith for his decision to retire from his position on September 1, 2020. According to a letter sent to the D.C. Circuit Court, Judge Griffith had apparently taken a bribe from Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to step down in exchange for a “promise of future employment, such as a prestigious professorship, or future income or any bonuses that could have come with an agreement for future employment.” 74 Since the group claimed that this decision to step down was “particularly suspicious,” it attempted to use this argument to obstruct the confirmation of Griffith’s successor, Judge Justin Walker. 75

On May 1, D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan released an order stating that Demand Justice had not met the requirements to file a proper complaint against Justice Griffith as they did not verify their charges against him, nor did they attempt to clarify said charges within the 6-week period between its filing and chief judge Srinivasan’s decision. 76 In addition, on May 5, National Public Radio (NPR) released a report on Griffith including quotes from him explaining that he made his decision for entirely personal reasons back in June 2019, and had informed his colleagues he would be retiring to care for his wife due to her “debilitating chronic illness.” 77 78

However, D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Srinivasan’s order had also requested U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts to transfer the unverified complaint to another circuit for review. He called on rule 26 of the Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability Proceedings which state that transfers may be used “where the issues are highly visible and a local disposition may weaken public confidence in the process.” 79 In addition, his order asserted rule 5 of the Proceedings by “identifying” the complaint himself due to Demand Justice’s lack of verification. Rule 5 states “when a chief judge has information constituting reasonable grounds for inquiry into whether a covered judge has engaged in misconduct or has a disability, the chief judge may conduct an inquiry, as he or she deems appropriate, into the accuracy of the information even if no related complaint has been filed.” 80 However, Chief Judge Srinivasan’s order noted that his “identification” had been made “without any inquiry by this court into the statements contained in the unverified correspondence or the questions posited by the organization in the correspondence about the possibility of judicial misconduct.” 81 On May 8, U.S. Chief Justice Roberts denied the transfer request, affirming that Chief Justice Srinivasan’s “identification” did not fit the prerequisites under Rule 5 as it did not reflect “a determination of probable cause or provide sufficient indicia to infer such a finding.” 82

Funding

Financial Overview

In May 2018, a New York Times article noted that Demand Justice “expects to raise $10 million in its first year.” The article further noted that Brian Fallon, the executive director of Demand Justice, “said he was more than halfway to this initial fundraising goal. While Demand Justice has not released a list of donors, Fallon spoke at the 2018 Democracy Alliance—a network of left-wing donors such as George Soros –conference in Atlanta.83

Tax documents in 2021 reportedly showed Demand Justice receiving $7 million in grants and spent roughly $4.2 million on expenses including “legal fees, office expenses, travel expenses, and program expenses.” 84 Legal fees were likely paid to the Elias Law Group since the forms also showed that Demand Justice was incorporated in Washington D.C. by Ezra Reese, a partner at the controversial law firm as of 2021. 85 Demand Justice also reported spending $235,000 on grants, and roughly $2.3 million on employee and officer wages. Demand Justice also reported that it anticipated receiving $7.5 million in grants and spending roughly $3.8 million on employee and officer wages during 2022. 86

In its final 2021 Form 990 disclosure for 2021, however, Demand Justice reported total revenues of just under $6 million, total expenditures of $1.6 million (including grants paid totaling $35,000), and net assets of $4.3 million. 87

Donors to Demand Justice

According to Politico and Demand Justice’s 2022 990 form, the organization reported a total revenue of $4,760,610 that year and it claimed it all came from three anonymous donors. Filings also indicate that one of these donors contributed roughly $3 million and another gave roughly $1.4 million. 88 89

In 2021, Demand Justice received $1,982,613 from its former fiscal sponsor, Sixteen Thirty Fund. 90

Between April and June 2018, Demand Justice received more than $2.5 million from the Open Society Policy Center, a 501(c)(4) lobbying group founded by George Soros, for general support. Open Society Policy Center gave Demand Justice another sum of $87,000 between October and December of that year to support their advocacy efforts on judicial nominations. 91 92

In 2018 and 2020 the New Venture Fund, which housed the 501(c)(3) wing of Demand Justice, received two grants from the Sandler Foundation totaling $1 million that were earmarked specifically for Demand Justice. 93 94

Demand Justice collects donations through its website and operates through ActBlue Civics, a pass-through 501(c)(4) organization that serves as a fundraising platform for other left-wing 501(c)(4) organizations.

Leadership

Executive Director

Brian Fallon is the co-founder and executive director of Demand Justice and a board member of its 501(c)(3) “sister,” Demand Justice Initiative. In 2021, he earned total compensation of $158,570. 95 According to his LinkedIn profile, he founded Demand Justice in February 2018, although a Buzzfeed article claims that the organization was launched in May of that same year. 96 97 Prior to Demand Justice, Fallon previously served as president of Barracks Row Media, a Washington, D.C. public relations firm. He previously worked as a political commentator for CNN, and served as a senior adviser for the political action committee Priorities USA, which provided critical funding to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Beginning in April 2015, Fallon also served as the Hillary Clinton campaign’s press secretary. Prior to joining Clinton’s campaign, Fallon was a spokesperson for former attorney general Eric Holder in the Department of Justice under President Obama, as well as communications director for Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) from 2007-2010. 98 99

In August 2018, Fallon lambasted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the Senator agreed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “fast-track” the confirmations of 15 Trump-nominated judges.100 Schumer justified the cooperation as a way to allow more time for vulnerable Democratic Senators in the 2018 midterm elections to campaign in their home states; particularly when the specific judges were deemed likely to succeed anyway with bipartisan support.101

Brian Fallon criticized Sen. Schumer’s strategy, writing that, “It is hard to think of a more pathetic surrender heading to the Kavanaugh hearings.” 102 Furthermore, Demand Justice chief counsel Christopher Kang proposed that it would have been better if Sen. Schumer continued to delay the judicial nominee approval process. Instead, Kang suggested vulnerable Democratic incumbents skip votes to campaign instead.103

In April 2018, Brian Fallon attended a secret meeting with Democracy Alliance in Atlanta, Georgia to represent Demand Justice, which had not yet been officially launched. 104 105

In 2022, an unknown person leaked an early decision in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization showing that the court intended to overturn the previous Roe v. Wade decision, returning abortion as an issue to the states. Fallon tweeted that “SCOTUS leaks are good. Rip the veil off.” 106 He told Vanity Fair that intimidation protests outside the homes of conservative justices were acceptable “as long as they’re peaceful.” 107

I don’t think that you should tell people that are on the front lines of having to bear the brunt of the impact of these decisions that they don’t get any redress, that they have no ability to protest, or that we don’t like the style of how you’re registering your dissent.

After the decision was delivered in June 2022, Fallon urged Democrats to pack the Supreme Court with new “progressive” justices, calling the conservative majority “illegitimate.” 108

Board of Directors

Christopher Kang is chief counsel for Demand Justice and a member of the group’s board of directors. According to an article on Buzzfeed News, Kang was one of 8 initial staffers that launched the organization in May 2018. 109 Prior to Demand Justice, Kang oversaw vetting and selection of judicial nominees in the Obama administration, including those of Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. 110 He previously worked as national director for the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) and in multiple roles for Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) over seven years, including Director of Floor Operations and Judiciary Committee Counsel.111 Kang is also a member of Demand Justice Initiative’s board. in 2021, he received total compensation of $164,895. 112

Arkadi Gerney is chairman of Demand Justice’s board. 113 Gerney is also the founder and executive director of the Hub Project, a left-of-center organizing group created by the Sixteen Thirty Fund. In 2021, the Hub Project was accused of violating federal election laws for allegedly funneling money from Swiss billionaire, Hansjorg Wyss, into poltical action committees (PACs) and elections-related work during the 2020 elections. 114

Elie Mystal is a member of Demand Justice’s board. Mystal is author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution. 115 Mystal is known for holding controversial far-left beliefs, particularly regarding the constitution. When asked by hosts on The View whether the constitution was a sacred document, Mystal responded “it’s certainly not sacred, all right, let’s start there. The Constitution is kind of trash.” 116 Mystal has also said in interviews promoting his book that he thinks that the Constitution should be “scrapped altogether.” 117

Lori Lodes is a former Demand Justice advisor during its 2018 smear campaign against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a board member. 118

Adam Jentleson is a Demand Justice board member and a political commentator. He is a former speechwriter for Democrat John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, deputy chief of staff for Sen. Harry Reid (D), and a critic of the Senate filibuster rule. In December 2022, Jentleson was picked to be chief of staff for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). 119

Katie O’Connor serves as counsel for Demand Justice. She previously worked at the American Constitution Society, a left-of-center legal organization that interprets the Constitution as a “living document.” She also spent ten years working at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).120

Paige Herwig was the former deputy chief counsel for Demand Justice. According to an article on Buzzfeed News, Herwig was one of 8 initial staffers that launched the organization in May 2018 along with Demand Justice Chief Counsel Christopher Kang. 121 Herwig left the organization in 2021 to serve as Senior Counsel for the White House Counsel’s Office. 122 In May 2023 it was announced she would be leaving her position to serve a different role within the Administration. 123 Prior to Demand Justice and the Biden Administration, Herwig’s career included serving as chief of staff and senior counsel at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy under the Obama Administration, the chief nominations counsel for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and counselor to former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. 124

Demand Justice was also incorporated by lawyer Ezra Reese, of the Elias Law Group. 125

Digital and Media Staff

Gabrielle McCaffrey is the head of Demand Justice’s digital team and runs its media campaigns. Previously, she worked on the Hillary for America 2016 presidential campaign as the digital director for Clinton’s primary efforts in South Carolina, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She also served as the Pennsylvania state digital director for Clinton’s general election campaign. McCaffrey also worked for the Democratic attorney general of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, as his director of digital engagement, as well as in the communications department of various left-of-center organizations including the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Revolution Messaging, and Run the World Digital.126

Diana Bowen serves as the director of video at Demand Justice. She previously worked as filmmaker and producer on various political campaign, including Hillary for America, Andrew Cuomo’s 2018 New York gubernatorial reelection campaign, and Sen. Ed Markey’s campaign for senator in the 2013 Massachusetts special election.127

Taylor Casey serves as the digital strategist and designer for Demand Justice. She worked at Run the World Digital as well as on the Hillary for America campaign in South Carolina.128

Shannon Wurthman serves as the digital and social media strategist at Demand Justice. Prior to joining Demand Justice, Wurthman worked for Free Speech for People and Run the World Digital, two left-of-center nonprofits. Wurthman also worked as the deputy digital director of the Greater Philadelphia area for the Hillary for America campaign as well as a volunteer for the Obama for America campaign.129

According to FEC filings, Andrew Schulz serves as the official custodian of records for Demand Justice. Schulz is an employee of Demand Justice’s fiscal sponsor, Sixteen Thirty Fund, as well as Arabella Advisors, a center-left political consultancy that manages Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund.130 Schulz works as a general council focused on nonprofit legal compliance.131

Biden Administration

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki worked as a communications consultant to Demand Justice among other organizations such as CNN, Lyft, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace before taking her position in the Biden administration. 132 Psaki has previously served under the Obama administration and for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

Paige Herwig serves a senior counsel under the Biden administration. 133 Demand Justice praised her nomination for how she will influence judicial nominations. 134

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  1. Lori Lodes
    Director
  2. Brian Fallon
    Executive Director
  3. Jen Psaki
    Former Communications Consultant
  4. Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  5. Jess McIntosh
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  6. Dawn Laguens
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  7. Jess Morales-Rocketto
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  8. Fatima Goss-Graves
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  9. Alyssa Milano
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  10. Karine Jean-Pierre
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  11. Jessica Valenti
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  12. Alyssa Mastromonaco
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  13. Brittany Packnett
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
  14. Symone Sanders
    Rise Up for Roe Speaker (2018)
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