Jack, this is going to be a short email because I'm going to put it to you simply:
  • Right-wingers have a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court, putting Roe v. Wade, Obamacare, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else we care about in peril.

  • Democrats need a Senate majority to confirm someone to the Supreme Court because Mitch McConnell showed in 2016 that he was more than happy to keep a court seat vacant for an entire year if a Democratic president was set to fill that seat. He's promised a similar blockade should the GOP take back the Senate.

  • Right now, Democrats have the thinnest of possible margins—an evenly divided 50-50 Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris acting as tie-breaker.

  • With Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement, the oldest judges on the court will be ultraconservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito (both in their 70s). Democrats could change the ideological makeup of the court if either of them were to leave their seats during a Democratic administration.
Democrats need to hold on to the Senate this fall—in fact, we need to expand our majority so that we can make Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema irrelevant. Republicans are playing defense across the map this November, defending a half dozen more seats than Democrats are, including several open seats where Republican incumbents are retiring.

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