Dear Friend,

This morning Senator Dianne Feinstein warmly greeted Donald Trump's
extremist nominee for the Supreme Court—ignoring the majority of the
American people who want this confirmation process to wait until the next
president is sworn in.^1

It's horrifying for so many reasons that Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell went ahead with these hearings, including the fact that at least
one Republican, Sen. Mike Lee, recently tested positive for COVID-19.^2
With the election just three weeks away, this confirmation process
shouldn't be happening at all. But most senators, including Democrats, are
treating this like business as usual.

A majority of Americans want the confirmation process to be delayed to
January, and we need to do everything possible to follow their will. More
than 200,000 of us have sent letters and called senators demanding that
they try to stop the hearings. Will you donate so we can ramp up the
pressure?

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Senator Cory Booker began his Judiciary Committee opening statement by
saying, “This is not normal.”^3

He called out the Republicans on the Committee for rushing the
confirmation for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. He called them out for
violating their own precedent they set in 2016, and for putting committee
members in danger by showing up after having been diagnosed with
COVID-19.^4

But the rest of the senators proceeded as if this were just a typical
nominee being discussed in typical times.

They’re surrendering to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and
enshrining Donald Trump’s ideology on the Supreme Court for generations to
come instead of fighting for our democracy, and this cannot stand.

Senators, especially Democrats, must use every procedural tool to slow
down the hearings, tools that, according to a new memo, could hold off the
confirmation until January.^5

Time is running out to stop the country from ending up with an extremist
Supreme Court that puts our basic rights and our democracy itself in
jeopardy.

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Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. Vox, "“This is not normal”: Cory Booker calls out Republicans rushing
Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court hearing," [ [link removed] ]October 12, 2020
2. Slate, "GOP Sen. Lee Speaks Without Mask at Hearing Less Than Two Weeks
After COVID-19 Diagnosis,"[ [link removed] ]October 12, 2020
3. Vox, "“This is not normal”: Cory Booker calls out Republicans rushing
Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court hearing," [ [link removed] ]October 12, 2020
4. Ibid.
5. The Intercept, "Trump taps Amy Coney Barrett—Memo lays out tactics for
opposition," [ [link removed] ]September 24, 2020
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