[ [link removed] ]WATCH: MoveOn members deliver 1.2 MILLION+ petition signatures
demanding that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas be impeached!

Dear MoveOn member,

We took your 1.2 million signatures to the Supreme Court. MoveOn members
joined together across the country to channel collective outrage into
action by signing the MoveOn petition demanding that Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas be impeached. The momentum and support that this petition
received was absolutely astounding: In the span of a little over two
weeks, more than 1 MILLION MoveOn members added their names to the
petition to impeach Justice Thomas. 

Together, we sent a message to our members of Congress, and they took
notice of our demands! On July 28, MoveOn members organized a petition
delivery with more than 300 RSVPs in front of the Supreme Court with
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Congressman Jamaal Bowman, MoveOn Executive
Director Rahna Epting, MoveOn member Matthew Witten, and Demand Justice
Senior Advisor Tamara Brummer from Demand Justice!

“We will not let Clarence Thomas and the illegitimate Supreme Court win
and we will not back down. We know what we have to do: expand the court,
set term limits, set age limits, and impeach Justice Clarence Thomas.”
This is part of what Congressman Jamaal Bowman’s speech said at the
petition delivery in front of the Supreme Court. 

MoveOn members took action and signed the petition over five months.
Justice Thomas has a clear history of outrageous, abusive, and immoral
actions like his ties with Big Money's right-wing organizations and the
fact that he was willing to use his power as a justice to conceal his
wife's active role in Trump's white supremacist-led January 6
insurrection. And in spite of this, Justice Thomas participated in a case
regarding Trump's records on January 6 and was the lone justice in an 8-1
ruling who wanted the White House to keep records hidden—including the
texts from his wife that were revealed.^1

But that’s not all: When the GOP-hijacked Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade, Justice Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that Obergefell, Griswold,
and Lawrence (the rulings that protect contraception, same-sex sexual
intimacy, and marriage equality for the LGBTQ+ community) should be
revisited next.^2 It’s scary, but not surprising. This has been the
Republican’s plan all along.

[ [link removed] ]Check out a recap video of the petition delivery below, and keep
reading to learn more about the people-powered campaign to impeach
Clarence Thomas!

[ [link removed] ]Thumbnail for impeach Clarence Thomas petition delivery. Click to watch
the recap video!

The journey to garnering more than 1.2 million signatures on this petition
was watched across the country. Newsweek covered the petition at several
milestones! First, Newsweek wrote the first article about how, in just two
days, 150,000 MoveOn members signed the petition. They wrote follow-up
articles when the petition passed 230,000 signatures, then 300,000, then
when it hit 700,000 signatures just one week after right-wing justices
overturned Roe. They wrote another when it hit 1 million signatures three
days later and when it hit 1.2 million signatures.^3,4,5,6,7,8 Newsweek
even reached out to both Justice Thomas and the Supreme Court for
comment—ensuring your signatures were noticed at the very top.

Getting press on petitions is a huge way to bring awareness to campaigns,
and it wouldn’t have happened without us all coming together to demand
accountability. And Newsweek isn’t the only outlet that covered the
petition. The Hill, Black Enterprise, Common Dreams, Truthout, Salon,
Glamour, Business Insider, even TV news outlets, and many others reported
on the petition, too!^9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 The momentum that we built
together was impressive. Articles about the petition made it to the front
page of Reddit TWICE, celebrities and influencers shared the petition on
their social media platforms, and hundreds of TikTokers made videos about
the petition! There is so much power in collective action.

Here are just a few of the amazing TikTok's shared by creators:

• [ [link removed] ]Click here to watch @theopinionatedqween's TikTok, which garnered
more than 350,000 views and 73,000 likes.

• [ [link removed] ]Click here to watch @blackkout___'s TikTok, which got more than
750,000 views and 203,000 likes.

[ [link removed] ]gif of articles covering the impeach Clarence Thomas petition

[ [link removed] ]Will you take one minute and share the recap video of the petition
delivery to spread the word?

Together, with your signatures and the petition delivery, we made it
clear: Republicans, who have won the presidential popular vote only once
in the last 34 years, have engaged in a concerted effort to pack the
Supreme Court with right-wing extremist judges who have stripped us of our
rights over and over again.

In just the last few months, these extremist judges have ruled that states
are required to fund private religious schools; to strike down a gun
violence prevention law in New York; that if police fail to inform us of
our Miranda rights, we can’t sue them; and that border patrol agents can
enter any home within 100 miles of the border with no
consequences.^16,17,18,19 And Republicans have no intention of slowing
down these attacks, so we have to lean into collective action and fight
back together.

That's why Matthew Witten, a MoveOn mobilizer, travelled across states to
come to D.C. and represent petition signers. Here's what Matthew had to
say: "1.2 million of us say that enough is enough, and that it is time for
some real accountability for this out-of-control, runaway court. A court
that has taken away our rights, taken away our freedoms, and rolled back
generations worth of progress. I've watched in dismay my entire adult life
at the radicalization of the Supreme Court, with the appointment of one
federalist after another completely unbalancing the court to a
fundamentalist ideology from Citizens United to Roe v Wade."

[ [link removed] ]Click here to share Matthew's message and spread the word about the
petition delivery with your loved ones!

[ [link removed] ]Gif of images from the impeach Clarence Thomas petition delivery

This is only the beginning of the fight ahead to expand and rebalance the
Supreme Court, pass a binding code of ethics, set term limits for Supreme
Court justices, and so much more. And if we keep working together and
holding people in power like Clarence Thomas accountable, we can make it
happen. 

Thanks for all you do.

–Jensine, Nakia, Isbah, Justin, and the rest of the team

[ [link removed] ]P.S. Did you miss out on the petition delivery with Congressman Jamaal
Bowman and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar? Click here to check out the
livestream on our Facebook page!

Sources:

1. "Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court's January
order rejecting Trump's bid to withhold documents from the January 6
panel," Insider, March 24, 2022
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2. "Thomas wants the Supreme Court to overturn landmark rulings that
legalized contraception, same-sex marriage," NBC News, June 24, 2022
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3. "Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas Petition Jumps 150K in Two Days,"
Newsweek, June 29, 2022
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4. "'Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas' Petition Passes 230K Signatures,"
Newsweek, June 16, 2022
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5. "Petition To Impeach Clarence Thomas Passes 300,000 Signatures,"
Newsweek, June 27, 2022
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6. "Impeach Clarence Thomas Petition Hits 700k Signatures Week Since Roe
Ruling," Newsweek, July 1, 2022
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7. "Impeach Clarence Thomas Petition Hits 1M Signatures: 'Justice is
Needed'," Newsweek, July 4, 2022
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8. "Petition to Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas Amasses 1.2M Signatures,"
Newsweek, July 14, 2022
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9. "Petition calling for Clarence Thomas removal from Supreme Court gets
1M signatures," The Hill, July 6, 2022
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10. "Petition To Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas Nets More Than 1 Million
Signatures," Black Enterprise, July 19, 2022
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11. "Petition Demanding Clarence Thomas Impeachment Reaches 1.2 Million,"
Common Dreams, July 28, 2022
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12."Petition calling for Impeachment of Clarence Thomas Nears 500,000
Signatures," Truthout, June 29, 2022
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13. "Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas" petition has nearly 1 million
signatures so far," Salon, July 3, 2022
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14. "Why People Are Calling for Congress to Impeach Clarence Thomas,"
Glamour, July 1, 2022
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15. "Impeaching Clarence Thomas: How Democrats could remove conservative
justices," Business Insider, June 27, 2022
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16. "The Supreme Court Just Fused Church and State — and It Has Even
Uglier Plans Ahead," Rolling Stone, June 22, 2022

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17. "Supreme Court strikes down New York gun law restricting concealed
carry in major Second Amendment case," CNBC, June 23, 2022

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18. "The Supreme Court Strips Us of Miranda Warnings," The Nation, June
23, 2022

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19. "U.S. Supreme Court insulates federal agents from accountability,"
Reuters, June 10, 2022

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