Judge shopping is a dangerous game

You may have heard of a sneaky tactic called "judge shopping." While this term probably isn't the topic of conversation at the dinner table for most Americans, it's an issue that impacts every one of us.

Judge shopping is when special interest groups work to find partisan judges to hear their cases and sway legal outcomes in their favor. In short: these groups are funneling cases to judges they know will hand down their preferred ruling.

Judge shopping is a dangerous game, and it needs to stop.

One of the most egregious examples of this tactic happened just recently when an anti-abortion group went to a right-wing judge in Texas – hand-picked by Donald Trump – to limit access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

Today it's mifepristone, and tomorrow, it could be contraception. The far-right's war on women and the constitutional right to privacy knows no bounds.

That's why I have a plan to stop this practice of judge shopping.

We must ensure that a ruling by one single judge doesn't impact every single American. Or that special interest groups can no longer play hopscotch with the American judicial system in search of a biased judge predisposed to rule in their favor.

That's not justice. That's not democracy.

And that's why I'm leading the charge in the Senate to end judge shopping and stop the weaponization of the courts once and for all. I'm committed to seeing this through.

It's time we bring some real fairness into our courts.

More soon,

Ron