Dear Friend,

Senator Mitt Romney just announced that he will go along with a Senate
confirmation vote on Donald Trump's nominee to replace Ruth Bader
Ginsburg.^1

Trump is announcing his nominee on Saturday, and now he has the votes he
needs to confirm that person just days before the presidential election.
But this isn't over. We still have a chance to prevent McConnell from
pushing this nomination through.

Congressional Democrats' best hope of resisting Trump’s plan to install a
third Justice on the Court is by using procedural rules to grind the
Senate to a halt. But we need to be sure they have the grassroots support
to get it done, which is why Demand Progress is driving hundreds of
thousands of calls and emails to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking them to use every tool they have to stop
this vote.

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Republicans were always going to try and push this nomination through,
even if it meant contradicting everything they said in 2016.^2

The outright hypocrisy being displayed by McConnell and his colleagues—who
parroted McConnell’s reasoning to block President Obama’s nominee and have
now turned 180 degrees—is an affront to all of their constituents and
degrading to our democracy.

Right now, we have a Court that is 4-3 against Roe v. Wade and the
Affordable Care Act. If Trump is allowed to push through his nominee, it
will be an extreme right-wing lock on the Court that will undermine
progressive policies and human rights, even if Trump doesn't get a second
term.

Senate Democrats need to spring into action now.

The Senate runs on unanimous consent. There are ten Democrats on the
Judiciary committee who can block every motion, force every bill to be
read in full, and use other parliamentary tactics to try to shut down the
Senate until January. The House can consider impeachment and other tactics
to tie up the Senate as well.

This is our best chance to try and stop Trump and McConnell—but we need to
make sure Senate Democrats know that the American people expect them to
resist a right-wing lock on the Supreme Court. We're ramping up our
grassroots mobilization, but time is quickly running out.

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Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. NBC News, "Sen. Romney signals he'll support a vote on Trump's Supreme
Court pick," [ [link removed] ]September 22, 2020
2. Tweet by Robert Reich, [ [link removed] ]September 22, 2020
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