Thread by @democracydiva

LOL. Every single thing Republicans have done in the last fifty years has been in response to the Warren court recognizing that white men aren't the only ones with rights. They created an entire cottage industry of dark money orgs to fund their decades-long judicial takeover.

https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1314319051720712192

And they were extremely successful. Because they shattered every rule and norm along the way, and taught their constituents that nothing matters except conservative judges. There is no other Republican policy priority. They have a plan for literally nothing. Only courts.

Small government? Less spending? Strong military? Trump has given them nothing on these traditional R Issues.

But they cling to him. Because only judges matter. And on judges, he and McConnell have succeeded. Because there is no rule or norm they're not willing to blow up.

Mitch McConnell refused to let Obama do his constitutional duty to nominate judges. He blocked more than 100 judgeships from being filled, so that a future Republican president coule fill them instead. Not to mention leaving a SCOTUS vacancy open for an entire year.

Judge Barrett already sits in one of these stolen seats. She sits on a federal circuit court in a seat that Obama nominated a Black woman for. Mitch blocked that nomination, and then under Trump, handed that seat to Barrett instead.

If you haven't read the 1971 Powell memo which outlines the exact plan for corporate takeover of the courts that Rs have followed for fifty years, miss me with your "Rs have never packed the courts!" bullshit. There's more than one way to take over courts.
greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/…

And if you need a recent example, how about the 2017 Calabresi memo proposing a massive court-packing plan specifically for "undoing the judicial legacy of President Barack Obama"?

archive.thinkprogress.org/federalist-soc…

This is who controls our judiciary. And they have the gall to tell us we are reactionary and extremist and breaking the rules, when they have openly, publicly broken our democracy because our Supreme Court dared to recognize that civil rights exist for more than just white men.

So instead of letting the political media demand an answer from Biden and Harris on a hypothetical that is fully dependent on what Senate Rs do over the next two weeks, let's demand answers from the people who have spent 50 years ensuring that we are a democracy in name only.

And demanding answers means taking this conversation off Twitter and into the streets and the halls of Congress. It means calling your senators every day and demanding that they stop this sham SCOTUS confirmation process.

This unprecedented rush to confirm a justice in the middle of an election that millions of people have already voted in is in service of one thing: ensuring there are 5 votes to kill the ACA and our access to healthcare amidst a pandemic. The Court hears that case on November 10.

So it's time to act. There are digital rallies, call-in days, socially-distanced-and-masked protests, and more activities every day. The hearings start Monday. We have no time to lose. Act now. Act today. I love the retweets, but I'd love action more.

Xoxo
Democracy Diva

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