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Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” email series that serves to remind
us of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we encountered
during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others in the MAGA
movement still pose – and to keep those moments clear in our memory as we
fight to defeat Republican extremists during the upcoming elections.

This week’s Trumptastrophe focuses on how former President Trump
transformed the Supreme Court by nominating right-wing justices to the
bench: justices that would ultimately issue rulings that advanced a wish
list of far-right priorities to reshape the country – undermining many of
our rights and freedoms in the process.

On Sept. 26, 2020, Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the
Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
a week earlier.

In naming Barrett to the Court, Trump completed the terms of the deal he
made with religious-right leaders in 2016—if they helped put him in power,
he would give them the Supreme Court of their dreams. Barrett, Trump’s
third Supreme Court nominee, was the top choice of anti-abortion
activists. Some of them had proclaimed for years that [ [link removed] ]God had anointed
Barrett to join the court and overturn Roe v. Wade.

People For the American Way and other civil and human rights groups
[ [link removed] ]opposed Barrett’s confirmation, but Republican senators were intent on
rushing her onto the court before voters could end Trump’s presidency.

Barrett would soon join her fellow MAGA justices in overturning 50 years
of precedent and stripping American women of the right to abortion.
Republican legislators and governors rushed to impose increasingly
draconian bans, defying strong public support for legal access to
abortion.

The right-wing legal movement that backed Barrett’s nomination has [ [link removed] ]far
more in mind than overturning Roe. They want to dismantle a century’s
worth of precedents, effectively repealing the New Deal and making much of
what the federal government does unconstitutional.

Since Barrett solidified the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority on the court,
the justices have gone to town, resulting in disastrous rulings for voting
rights, workers, consumers, immigrants, and supporters of church-state
separation. They have drastically undermined the ability of federal
agencies to protect Americans’ health, safety, and environment. They will
have [ [link removed] ]more opportunities to create harm with the cases they have
accepted for their upcoming term.

All eyes are now on the upcoming presidential election, and what role the
MAGA justices might play in supporting the efforts of the [ [link removed] ]election
subversion machinery that MAGA leaders and donors have built since Trump’s
2020 loss. This network of lawyers is far more prepared to overturn a
Trump loss than the ragtag and frankly embarrassing legal team that
rallied around him in 2020. The MAGA machinery is positioning itself to
launch a wave of lawsuits that could delay election certification and
ultimately prevent some states’ electoral votes from being counted.

In 2023, Supreme Court justices rejected MAGA lawyers’ request that they
adopt an extreme version of the right-wing “independent legislature
theory,” which would have completely removed state courts from questions
involving disputed presidential elections. But the MAGA justices [ [link removed] ]left
themselves an opening to intervene and override state courts—a move that
NYU law professor Richard Pildes told NPR would “hang over the 2024
election.”

It’s hard to have much confidence that the MAGA justices will do the right
thing and ensure that the will of the voters is respected. While it’s true
that they did not intervene in 2020 to help Trump overturn the election,
they have proven themselves all too willing to help him out since he left
office, handing him [ [link removed] ]victory after victory.

This year, the MAGA justices ruled that presidents have a [ [link removed] ]broad degree
of immunity from accountability for criminal wrongdoing in
office—potentially a terrifying green light for a future President Trump
to indulge his vengeful ambitions. University of Pennsylvania law
professor Kate Shaw called the opinion “[ [link removed] ]fundamentally lawless.”

The best way to make it harder for the right-wing election subversion
machine or the MAGA justices to override a victory by Vice President
Kamala Harris is to make sure that her Electoral College victory is
convincing enough that such efforts would be widely understood as
illegitimate.

That’s something we can all make happen.

These are just some of the reasons we need YOU in this
fight. So, find your
favorite way to unwind after reading through this week’s recap, and then
make a plan for how you will fight back this week, this month, this
election cycle.

For members who are interested in sharing the weekly Trumptastrophe
series, [ [link removed] ]you can find all previous editions on our website! This post
will be published by Thursday so you can share with your friends and
family and remind them of the importance of ensuring that Trump is
defeated again this November.

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Thanks for all that you do to defeat MAGA Republicans.

– People For the American Way

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