This is the most important Supreme Court vacancy for this country in at least a generation. Nothing less than the fate of our health care system, reproductive rights for women, and countless other protections for middle-class Americans are at stake.
Will Republicans & @realDonaldTrump nominate & vote for someone who will preserve protections for people w/ preexisting conditions, or will they support a justice who will put health insurance companies over patients, or put the federal government between a woman & her doctor?
The Senate should reject anyone who will instinctively side with powerful special interests over the interests of average Americans.
My @SenateGOP colleagues should follow the rule they set in 2016 not to consider a SCOTUS nominee in an election year. Sen McConnell would tell anyone who listened that the Senate had the right to advise & consent, & that was every bit as important as POTUS’ right to nominate.
Millions of ppl are just months away from determining the senators who should vote to confirm or reject POTUS’s nominee, & their voices deserve to be heard now, as @SenateMajLdr thought they deserved to be heard then. Anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy.
People from all across America should realize that their rights and opportunities are threatened and should make their voices heard loudly, clearly, and consistently.
Americans should make it clear that they will not tolerate a nominee chosen from President Trump’s pre-ordained list, selected by powerful special interests, who will reverse the progress we have made over the decades.
