The new Supreme Court term started this week. It isn’t good:
WASHINGTON POST: "You thought the Supreme Court’s last term was bad? Brace yourself."
FIVETHIRTYEIGHT: "The Supreme Court is on the verge of killing the Voting Rights Act."
With a 6-3 conservative majority on the Court, we must make sure President Biden can fill any vacancies that arise without Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans blocking his nominations.
To do so, Democrats MUST keep control of the Senate in November. What we do today and in the next 5 weeks until election day will be critical for the future composition of the Court.
The Washington Post is also reporting that conservative justices will continue to move as quickly as they can, knowing their 6-3 majority is a generational opportunity:
"They’re impatient," Harvard Law School professor Richard Lazarus said of the conservative justices, especially the longest-serving, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. "They’ve spent a lot of time waiting for this majority to happen, and they don’t plan to waste it."
In their upcoming case docket, the conservative justices have taken up cases experts believe they will use to:
- Gut the environmental protections of the Clean Water Act.
- Eliminate the right for labor unions to strike.
- Allow businesses to legally discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals.
- Give Republican-controlled state legislatures unchecked power to overturn election results in 2024 battleground states.
- Eliminate affirmative action in higher education.
By taking action right now, we can help Senate Democrats protect and expand their majority and be in a position to confirm new liberal justices to the Court in 2023 and beyond.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- The PCCC Team (@BoldProgressive)
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