Justice 2024 PAC

Justice 2024 spent heavily on the election of Democratic U.S. Senate candidates including then-Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), then-Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Sen.  Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Sen.  Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI). ²

Background

Justice 2024 is a trial lawyer-aligned political action committee that funded Democratic U.S. Senate candidates during the 2024 election cycle. ¹

Other Justice PACs are set up for each two-year election cycle, with iterations in subsequent election seasons beginning with Justice 2018, Justice 2020, and Justice 2022.  ¹

Judith Zamore is listed as the treasurer of the PAC. ³

Financial Information

Justice 2024 raised $1,200,008. Contributions to the PAC from individual donors of $200 or more totaled $1,198,268. It spent $1,199,908. ³

Justice 2024 spent $901,052 on the election of Democratic U.S. Senate candidates and $57,828 on fundraising. ²

Justice 2024 spent $112,896 toward the election of then-U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH); $110,300 towards the election of then-U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT); $99,094 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); $95,164 toward the election of U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV); $93,213 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; $91,690 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA); $79,105 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); $73,845 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE); $73,030 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA); $72,715 towards the election of U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI). ²

From 2017 through 2024, the iterations of the Justice PACs contributed $4,288,379 to Democratic U.S. Senate candidates, according to research by the right-of-center Alliance for Consumers. The PAC’s iterations also contributed a total of $7,678 to Democratic-leaning organizations. For contributions, 100 percent went toward electing Democrats. ¹

Trial Lawyers

Along with the Justice PACs, the right-leaning Alliance for Consumers identified two other organizations in its report that labeled as “shady trial lawyer” PACs. The alliance’s report on similar organizations includes the AAJ PAC, which is associated with the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) which has contributed 98 percent of its $21.5 million in contributions to Democratic candidates from 2017 through 2024. ¹

The Truth and Justice Fund Company spent more than $3 million in swing-state U.S. Senate candidates in North Carolina and Montana. ¹

Overall, the Justice PACs, the AAJ PAC, and the Truth and Justice Fund Company contributed about $29 million in total support for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates and allied committees from 2017 through 2024. Some of the recipients include left-leaning groups such as America Votes, American Bridge 21st Century, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Emily’s List. ¹

Among the three trial lawyer-aligned PACs, the biggest recipients of campaign funding in the 2024 election cycle were U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) with $99,094.07; U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) who got $95,163.53; U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) who got $93,213.49; U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who got $91,690.03; U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) who got $79,106; U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), with $72,568.56; U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), who got $69,119.42; U.S. Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), who got $73,845; and U.S. Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ), who got $70,913.97. ¹