PFAW Member,
Right-wing justices in the Supreme Court – including Trump’s nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch – just voted to uphold a Louisiana law to severely limit abortion access, especially for low-income women, despite a very recent Supreme Court decision striking down an identical law out of Texas!
Thankfully, Chief Justice Roberts sided with the Court’s moderates in THIS CASE – even though he had dissented in the Texas case – out of respect for precedent. But this 5-4 decision highlights:
The danger of having FOUR Supreme Court justices who blatantly reject stare decisis – the legal concept that the Court is bound by precedent (especially recent precedent) in previous decisions…
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The danger of having Roberts as the Court’s new “swing vote” – Roberts’s leanings are definitively far-right and, more often than not, he comes down on the wrong side of 5-4 decisions (see Citizens United, which opened the floodgates for unlimited money in politics, and the Shelby County ruling, which gutted the VRA, among many other examples)…
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The danger of potentially adding one or more precedent-disrespecting right-wing justices to the Supreme Court and the dire need to prevent Trump and McConnell from doing it!!!
One thing PFAW is doing to make a major impact in this year’s elections is fighting to mobilize progressives and other voters around the courts with our Vote the Courts campaign.
And we’re working tirelessly in key target states to unseat the Republican senators who have been rubber stamps for Trump’s unprecedentedly unfit judicial nominees, and flip control of the U.S. Senate with our Take Back the Senate Fund.
Right now, we’re $42,805 short of our end-of-quarter goal to carry on this work at our current pace. And carry on we must, because the most recent polling in our key races that show our campaigns are having a significant impact against Trump Republicans!
That’s a lot of money to raise in just the next 24 hours, but I know that you and other PFAW members get what’s at stake and I am confident we can do it.
And all donations until our deadline will be 3X-MATCHED, so your impact will be TRIPLED!
Please chip in what you can now to defeat Trump, flip the Senate, and save our Courts!>>
If just 3% of the people receiving this message kicked in just $5 we’d blow our goal out of the water.
Please give as generously as you can before this crucial mid-year deadline (in the most important election year of our lives).
Thank you so much for everything you do.
-- Ben Betz, Digital/Organizing Director
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