Hi,
After the horrific mass murder of children at an elementary school in
Texas, will our country finally take action to stop mass shootings and
pass new gun control laws?
Not if the Supreme Court can help it. In fact, the Supreme Court is about
to issue a ruling that could throw out gun control laws across the country
and make it easier for people to carry guns anywhere they want.
We need Congress and the President to act NOW to pass gun control
legislation. Even if they do, the right-wing Supreme Court could overturn
it. That's why we also need to take the court back from the extremists.
Congress has the power to add seats to the Supreme Court and fix a broken
institution that has been captured by the NRA's allies. There's no time to
lose. Will you add your name in this urgent moment?
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Congress must add seats to the Supreme Court to stop
the far right!
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This is all happening because the far right has succeeded in its
decades-long campaign to secure a supermajority on the Supreme Court. Six
out of nine Supreme Court justices have ties to the Federalist Society, a
cabal of right-wing jurists backed by corporate funders such as the Koch
Brothers.
The NRA has also played a key role in helping get these extremists onto
the Supreme Court. They've also worked to get the Court to agree to a
warped interpretation of the Constitution. Beginning in 2008, Antonin
Scalia and his right-wing colleagues on the Court have been issuing
decision after decision rolling back gun control legislation.^1
Now the Supreme Court is about to issue its most radical gun decision yet.
For the last 100 years New York has had strict licensing requirements for
carrying a gun in public. But the far right brought a case against New
York seeking to throw out those rules and others like them across
America.^2
Just as the Supreme Court is poised to overturn decades of precedent and
allow states to ban abortion, they're also about to overturn a century of
precedent to make it easier for anyone to carry a gun. Even in New York,
where people are still mourning the victims of the mass shooting in
Buffalo.
Congress must pass legislation to control guns and stop mass shootings.
They're also going to have to rebalance the Supreme Court now, before
Republicans have the chance to secure a Congressional majority in the
midterms. It's constitutional, it's happened before, and it's the only way
to stop the radical right takeover of our courts and our country!
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Urge Congress to expand the Supreme Court and stop
mass shootings!
Thanks for taking action,
Robert and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. Brennan Center, "How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment," [ [link removed] ]May 20,
2014.
2. Washington Post, "How the Supreme Court could soon drastically expand
the right to carry guns," [ [link removed] ]May 19, 2022.
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