John, this Supreme Court is now about the raw exercise of right-wing political power.
I wanted to share some raw reflections I shared on Twitter last week, on the last day of the Supreme Court's term. I felt it’s important to share with you how I’m feeling right now because it sums up why we fight.
Republicans are using the Court to unleash a revolution. They’re taking a sledgehammer to every principle and precedent of the last century that had been moving us slowly toward a society where women, people of color, LGBTQ+, religious minorities, and others had a shot at equality.
They want to tear it *all* down. And they’re doing it at breakneck speed. Abortion rights. Voting rights. Climate justice. Separation of church and state. Gun violence prevention. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
The Supreme Court’s “decisions” — and I say that in quotes because I don’t believe what they’re doing here is law as we used to understand it — are indistinguishable from Republicans’ war on women, on LGBTQ+ families, on BIPOC communities. It is the same war. The Court is now simply a weapon Republicans are wielding.
We cannot just sit back and surrender. We are not going anywhere and we are not giving up. And, we need you more than ever.
I’ll say it again:
this Supreme Court is a Republican weapon. It’s not lofty, it’s not principled, it’s not some fantastical palace of reason. It’s raw, reactionary, political power. If our elected leaders refuse to reckon with that, we’ll never understand the terrain we’re fighting on.
For folks who think that the effort to expand the Supreme Court is radical - it’s actually the *least* radical thing we could do right now. We’re talking about passing a piece of legislation to set the size of the Court as contemplated in the constitution. It’s literally Congress’s job to hold the Court accountable when it overreaches its power.
When 6 unelected extremists are casting aside all norms, precedent, and the rule of law to catapult us back to the 1800s — honestly, what could be more measured and reasonable than Court expansion?
Supreme Court justices aren’t kings. They don’t get to rule us without our consent.
We have been giving everything we have to fight back against these extremists for the last four years. We are going to keep fighting back even harder and I hope you will join and support our movement today:
Thank you for being in this fight.
Sarah Lipton-Lubet,
Executive Director, Take Back the Court Action Fund
