ACS President @russfeingold released this statement in response to the Senate’s vote tonight to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to #SCOTUS acslaw.org/press_release/… (1/12)
Today, the majority of the US Senate has engaged in an unprecedented power grab (2/12)
The Right has delegitimized and damaged #SCOTUS, the very body it desperately seeks to control and use as an instrument of reactionary power (3/12)
This state of affairs, where the Right does what it can, and the rest of us suffer what we must, cannot be allowed to persist (4/12)
The lawyers, and especially the law students, who are members of ACS are not going to sit quietly as the Right takes away their future (5/12)
Clearly, the Right has very big plans for this captive judicial system. Perhaps it will intervene in the upcoming election, as President Trump has openly requested (6/12)
Or perhaps it will begin a careful, but ultimately thorough, hollowing out of the last 100 years of progress in American law (7/12)
We must, and will, respond swiftly and forcefully to make clear to the Right that this fantasy of minority rule enforced by captured courts is just that (8/12)
Courts that are in need of reform will be reformed (9/12)
Exactly how this will occur we cannot yet say. As Lincoln said, because our case is new, we must think anew (10/12)
Whether by legislation, commission, or constitutional amendment, there must be a serious response (11/12)
Read the entire statement from ACS President @russfeingold here acslaw.org/press_release/… (12/12)
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