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If you want to build a democracy that works for everyone, you must have an honest judiciary. If you want an honest judiciary, you #TakeBacktheCourt
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Jul 28, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
This Supreme Court has been misportrayed by some as “moderate” but this term the conservative justices showed us once again that when corporate interests are on the line, they are happy to rig the country’s laws against working families. One of the biggest workers' rights cases of the decade, Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, was decided on a partisan 6-3 split - erasing years of precedent to decimate basic union access to workplaces.
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Nov 2, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨 NEW: Republican-appointed judges are MORE likely to allow voter suppression in cases where litigants demonstrate that policies would disproportionately harm people of color. Read the new analysis from @TakeBacktheCt here: takebackthecourt.today/antidemocracy-… Republican-appointed judges have made it harder for people of color to vote in 90 percent of 2020 votes involving policies with transparently racially discriminatory effects. Among Trump-appointed justices the number climbs to a jaw-dropping 94 percent of cases #TakeBacktheCourt