Once upon a time, there was a right-wing group called The Judicial Confirmation Network that was created “to ensure that the confirmation process for all judicial nominees is fair and that every nominee sent to the full Senate receives an up or down vote.”

Such a mission made sense back during the George W. Bush administration, when the group was founded … but didn’t work so well when Barack Obama was elected and suddenly the organization was fighting to ensure that his nominees didn’t get confirmed.

Eventually, the JCN realized that it couldn’t keep calling itself the Judicial Confirmation Network if it was actively working to prevent the confirmation of judges, so the name was changed to the Judicial Crisis Network and the group likewise wrote up a new mission statement.

Eventually, the original founders left, with Executive Director Gary Marx signing on with Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition and Chief Counsel Wendy Long stepping down in order to “devote her time to her family and other causes.”

Among those “other causes” to which Long is dedicating herself is a run for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in November.

Last month, Long won the endorsement of the Conservative Party of New York State and today secured the endorsement of the anti-abortion zealots over at the Susan B. Anthony List: