#NN21 Keynote: Rebalancing The Supreme Court: Why Progressives Must Take Back the [Stolen] Court to Save our Democracy with @SenTinaSmith @MondaireJones @RepBarbaraLee & Sarah Lipton-Lubet of @TakeBacktheCt. (via @actdottv) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
We have a 6/3 far right hyper-partisan super majority. It is hostile to democracy itself. Policies that are enormously popular across the spectrum are at risk of not being in the #BuildBackBetter Act because of corporate power. -- @MondaireJones #NN21
"I was stunned but I wasn't surprised" - @TinaSmithMN on the Texas ban. She has supported #ExpandTheCourt for years. The Federalist Society has had a multi-generational plan to take over our courts. "We have to get to 13 members to restore balance." We must #TakeBackTheCourt
"[GOP judges] are giving these speeches, literally standing next to Mitch McConnell, saying how non-partisan they are" - Sarah Lipton-Lubet of
@TakeBacktheCt #NN21
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"The biggest skeptics including within the Democratic Party are people who are part of the legal establishment. They really want to believe this is the SCOTUS they studied in law school. I get it. But on balance this is a court that is hostile to our democracy" @MondaireJones
"They already DID the thing that we should be afraid of!" - @TinaSmithMN
"It's been done 7 times before. McConnell already HAS changed the size of the court. The crisis is here." - @RepMondaire #NN21 #TakeBackTheCourt

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