# Demand Justice > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Demand_Justice > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Demand_Justice.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice > Source revision: 1357101428 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American progressive legal advocacy organization}} {{Infobox organization | name = Demand Justice | full_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | map = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map2 = | map2_size = | map2_alt = | map2_caption = | abbreviation = | nickname = | pronunciation = | pronounce_ref = | pronounce_comment = | named_after = | predecessor = | merged_into = | successor = | formation = 2018 | founders = [Brian Fallon](/source/Brian_Fallon_(press_secretary))
Christopher Kang | founding_location = | dissolved = | merger = | type = [501(c)(4)](/source/501(c)(4)) [nonprofit](/source/Nonprofit_organization) | tax_id = | registration_id = | status = | purpose = | professional_title = | headquarters = [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) | coordinates = | origins = | region_served = | products = | services = | methods = | fields = | membership = | num_members_year = | language = | owner = | secretary_general = | leader_title = Executive Director | leader_name = Brian Fallon | leader_title2 = Chief Counsel | leader_name2 = Christopher Kang | leader_title3 = | leader_name3 = | leader_title4 = | leader_name4 = | board_of_directors = | key_people = | main_organ = | parent_organization = | subsidiaries = | secessions = | affiliations = | budget = $7.5 million{{Cite news |last=Markay |first=Lachlan |date=2022-03-06 |title=Progressives prep big spending for Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation |language=en |work=Axios |url=https://www.axios.com/2022/03/06/progressives-scotus-confirmation-spending |access-date=2022-09-06}} | budget_year = 2022 | revenue = | revenue_year = | disbursements = | expenses = | expenses_year = | endowment = | endowment_year = | funding = | num_staff = | num_staff_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | num_students = | num_students_year = | awards = | website = {{URL|https://demandjustice.org/}} | remarks = | former_name = | footnotes = | bodystyle = }} '''Demand Justice''' is a politically [progressive](/source/progressive_politics) American [501(c)(4)](/source/501(c)(4)) legal advocacy organization. It focuses on motivating left-leaning voters based on its goal of changing the composition of the [American federal judiciary](/source/Federal_judiciary_of_the_United_States), as well as encouraging the [United States Senate](/source/United_States_Senate) to confirm progressive nominees to judicial positions and to expand the [United States Supreme Court](/source/United_States_Supreme_Court). It was established in 2018 by [Brian Fallon](/source/Brian_Fallon_(press_secretary)) and Christopher Kang,{{Cite web |date=2019-08-21 |title=Press Release: Reviews are in: Progressives React to Demand Justice's Call for No More Corporate Lawyers on Federal Bench Under Next Democratic President |url=https://demandjustice.org/press-release-progressives-react/ |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Demand Justice |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Hulse |first=Carl |date=2018-05-03 |title=After Garland Defeat, New Group Hopes to Draw Democrats to Judicial Battlefield |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/us/politics/merrick-garland-judicial-trump.html |access-date=2022-09-06 |issn=0362-4331}} originally as a project of the [Sixteen Thirty Fund](/source/Sixteen_Thirty_Fund). In May 2021, when Demand Justice split off from the Sixteen Thirty Fund to become a separate organization, ''[Axios](/source/Axios_(website))'' described Demand Justice as the "tip of the progressive spear in battles over the makeup of the federal judiciary."{{Cite news |last=Markay |first=Lachlan |date=2021-05-14 |title=Progressive legal advocacy group spinning off from sponsor |language=en |work=Axios |url=https://www.axios.com/2021/05/14/progressive-demand-justice-group-spin-off |access-date=2022-09-06}} Among its first major activities after being founded in 2018 was its extensive spending on television ads opposing the confirmation of [Brett Kavanaugh](/source/Brett_Kavanaugh) to the Supreme Court.{{Cite news |date=2019-11-19 |title=Documents reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018 |language=en |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/dark-money-democrats-midterm-071725 |access-date=2022-09-06}} It also spent $1 million on an ad campaign supporting the confirmation of [Ketanji Brown Jackson](/source/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson) after running a public campaign encouraging [Stephen Breyer](/source/Stephen_Breyer) 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.{{Cite news |last=Hulse |first=Carl |date=2022-04-01 |title=Republicans Target Progressive Advocacy Group Amid Opposition to Jackson |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/us/politics/gop-demand-justice-jackson-hearings.html |access-date=2022-09-06 |issn=0362-4331}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{Official website|https://demandjustice.org/}} Category:501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations Category:Progressive organizations in the United States Category:Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. Category:2018 establishments in Washington, D.C. Category:Judicial activism Category:Legal advocacy organizations in the United States Category:American organizations established in 2018 {{nonprofit-org-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Demand Justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.