We must expand the Supreme Court while we have the chance.

Dear Friend,

Donald Trump is gone, but the far-right justices he lodged on the nation’s highest court are there for life.

The Supreme Court’s 6–3 majority looks poised to dismantle what’s left of the Voting Rights Act—unleashing another wave of voter-suppression laws across the country that could cement a one-party rule for generations to come.1

The Democrats have a razor-thin majority in Congress in an electoral system clearly rigged against people of color and urban areas. They must use their power to expand the Supreme Court to prevent a permanent takeover of our democracy by the billionaires and the far-right extremists.

We’re demanding that Democrats expand the Supreme Court while they have the chance. Will you chip in?

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Even before Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court under John Roberts issued critical decisions to erode our democracy and the principle of one person, one vote.

Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate money into our elections. And Shelby County v. Holder dismantled the part of the Voting Rights Act that required certain jurisdictions—mostly in the Deep South—to prove that their laws and legislative districts didn’t discriminate against people of color.2

The decisions enabled even more aggressive, partisan gerrymandering, corporations deciding elections, and voting systems that generally favor rural, white voters.

Now a majority of justices looks poised to uphold two racist voter suppression laws in Arizona and nullify what remains of the Voting Rights Act. If Congress passes a new voter protection law, Trump’s Supreme Court might find a way to overturn that, too.

The solution is clear: The Constitution allows Congress to determine the size of the Supreme Court. We must expand the court to 13 and give President Joe Biden the chance to appoint four justices while Democrats still have control of Congress.

Our very democracy is at stake. Unless we expand the Supreme Court, we could have permanent minority rule by the billionaire class. Will you chip in?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

Sources:

1. The Washington Post, "The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act case could gut civil rights protections. Then what?" March 15, 2021
2. Brennan Center for Justice, "The Effects of Shelby County v. Holder," August 6, 2018

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