UnKoch Our Courts!
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The Koch network is invested in a coordinated effort to influence the education, nomination, and confirmation/election processes of Judges and Attorneys General across the country.
We are building alongside local organizations to track dark money influence, empower local activists with research training, and mobilize grassroots resistance state by state to this corporate takeover of our courts. Together we have the power to protect institutions designed for public good and transform them.
We know that judges educated by Koch-sponsored seminars are statistically more likely to issue longer prison sentences and overturn regulations protecting workers and the environment. And we know the Koch network has been behind the “tough on crime” and “right on crime” movements that brought us mandatory minimums, “three strikes” laws, laws allowing juveniles to be tried as adults, and stand your ground laws.
These are not actions that demonstrate a commitment to a more just world. Rather, these are actions from actors whose expressed intent is to roll back social progress and protections in service of an ideological culture war that leaves marginalized communities in its wake. It is harming communities of color and stripping the public of our reproductive freedoms, voting rights, LGBT rights, access to healthcare, and regulations that protect our environment.