Constitutional Law

LCCR President On Presidential Race and Its Impact on Federal Bench

During an ACS panel discussion of a new article on the declining success of employment discrimination cases in the federal courts, Wade Henderson, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said the current administration has advanced an ideological agenda with its federal court picks and that the forthcoming election will greatly impact the bench’s make-up for decades to come.

“The Leadership Conference is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and I represent the Leadership Conference,” Henderson said. “ACS is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we are not here to advocate on behalf of any candidate in any election. But having said that, elections matter and this presidential election, among other things, will determine the future of the federal courts perhaps for a generation to come.”

Watch video of Henderson’s entire comments by clicking the picture.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).