PFAW Member,
Trump and Mitch McConnell are trying to jam-pack our courts with unqualified and radically far-right judges for decades to come – and they’re succeeding. We need your help to stop one of Trump’s worst judicial nominees, who is expected to receive a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee as soon as they reconvene for regular business.
Trump has nominated Stephen S. Schwartz for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, despite the fact that much of his record is so blatantly disqualifying that he should be unconfirmable for a federal position.
Perhaps Schwartz’s biggest claim to fame? He was a lead defender of the North Carolina voter suppression bill that a federal court decision later described as having “target[ed] African Americans with almost surgical precision.”1
Senate business is on pause for the next several weeks so that gives us the chance to build a massive grassroots resistance against the confirmation of this horrendous nominee! We're already close to 25K signatures -- can you help us double that in the next 48 hours?
Sign TODAY to tell the Senate to REJECT right-wing shill Stephen S. Schwartz! >>
In addition to his record of hostility to voting rights, Schwartz is attractive to the Radical Right for:
- arguing that Title IX does not prohibit discrimination against transgender students;
- defending North Carolina’s notorious anti-transgender “bathroom ban bill;”
- arguing that states could legally deny driver’s licenses to DACA participants because Schwartz thought that the 2012 program was not lawful.
Those are just some of his many extreme positions, and if he were to be confirmed to the powerful U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Schwartz would be able to do even greater damage to our legal system and Americans’ rights.
Please urge the Senate to halt Schwartz’s nomination process -- ADD YOUR NAME TODAY >>
Schwartz was first nominated for this position in 2017, but his far-right political ideology prevented him from getting a vote back then. Now Senate Republicans are making a second attempt to put this right-wing ideologue on the federal bench – a position he is completely unqualified to serve.
In solidarity,
- Sarah, Digital Campaigns Associate
[1] “Judicial Nominee Stephen Schwartz Wants to Undo the New Deal and the Social Safety Net.”
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