Democracy was nice while it lasted
If Republicans replace Ginsburg, there will be a majority of 5 GOP justices appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote & confirmed by GOP Senate majorities that won fewer votes collectively than Dems.
They will use this majority to further gut voting rights
Republicans have not won more votes than Dems for all 100 senators collectively since the 1994-1998 elections. They've won the popular vote once for president in the last 3 decades. And yet, they're about to gain an even more extreme Supreme Court majority.
How democracies die
In the likely event that McConnell & 50 GOP senators violate this bad faith positioning from 2016, Dems must expand the Supreme Court if Biden wins & they win the Senate. If Trump replaces Ginsburg, GOP will further destroy the Voting RIghts Act & the rule of law to protect Trump
We need mass protests to protect the rule of law by preventing the most corrupt president in U.S. history from appointing another justice who will protect him from legal scrutiny, further gut the Voting Rights ACt, undermine the census' accuracy, & turbocharge GOP gerrymandering
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