John,
Something major happened since we sent out a call for citizen co-sponsors for the Judiciary Act of 2021: Senator Elizabeth Warren JUST announced her support to expand the Supreme Court! This brings the number of Congressional endorsers to 48 — and growing.
In a Boston Globe op-ed this week, Warren writes, “Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell hijacked America’s Supreme Court…[and] rebalancing the court is a necessary step to restore its credibility.”
This is AMAZING news, but we need to take advantage of this moment. That’s why we are aiming to DOUBLE the amount of citizen co-sponsors for the Judiciary Act by the end of the week.
So, if you haven’t already, please take 30 seconds to add your name in support of Court expansion:
TakeBacktheCourt.today/co-sponsor
The movement for Court expansion is growing every day. And thanks to your activism, we are making this a reality.
For that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Aaron
P.S. If you’ve already signed on as a citizen co-sponsor, please consider forwarding this email to THREE friends and ask them to join you!
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Here's the deal, John:
Donald Trump and the far-right have packed the Supreme Court with some of the most extreme justices in our nation’s history. The Court is no longer a fair and unbiased body — it is now the Republican Party's political puppet.
The Biden White House's proposed solution was a Presidential Commission to study the issue. I submitted formal testimony as part of their investigation — which was informed by comments from more than 8,500 Take Back the Court supporters. Today, the Commission just published their final report and to say it's … disappointing is an understatement. But we knew a research paper was never going to solve this.
What will solve it, you ask? Adding four justices to the Court to rebalance it.
That's exactly what the Judiciary Act of 2021 would do — and its support is growing in Congress. At this moment more than 40 members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors, but it's going to take pressure from the American people to make this legislation a reality.
That's why we’re asking you to add your name and sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of the Judiciary Act of 2021. Will you take 30 seconds to add your name right now?
There’s one simple fact: The majority of justices on the Court right now were appointed by Republican presidents who LOST the popular vote.
And these extreme justices are stripping away the very fabric of our democracy with almost every ruling in recent months. This term they will rule on everything from abortion rights and gun control to climate action is at stake this term — there is no more time to waste.
We know that President Biden and Congress won't move the Judiciary Act forward without immense public pressure from folks like you, who understand the threat to our democracy the current Court represents.
But we also know that immense public pressure can be effective. After all, that's what pushed legislation like Obamacare and the American Rescue Plan over the finish line and stopped Trump's disastrous American Health Care Act.
The fate of the Judiciary Act of 2021 rides on the amount of public pressure we can put on the president and Congress. So please, add your name as a citizen co-sponsor today so we can make this a reality!
We can do this together.
Thank you for all you do,
Aaron Belkin
Founder and President, Take Back the Court
