Dear MoveOn member,
With so much riding on our ability to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, I’m excited to invite you to a special call with Senator Elizabeth Warren this Monday night to discuss what's at stake in this fight and how progressives can end Republican obstructionism and fill the seat before it's too late.
MoveOn's national conference call with Sen. Warren is this Monday, April 4, at 8 p.m. ET (7 CT/6 MT/5 PT).
After weeks of public outcry over Senate Republicans' outright refusal to consider any President Obama nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, we’re starting to see cracks in the GOP’s unified opposition. Sixteen Republican senators have now said they'd meet with Judge Merrick Garland—and several have said Judge Garland's nomination should receive hearings and a vote.1 We’re making progress.
But time is running out. Conventional wisdom says that if there aren't hearings by summer, Republicans will be able to drag this out through the election—which means we need to break the Republican chokehold in the next eight weeks if we want to see this seat filled.
On Monday night, Sen. Warren will talk about what it's going to take to fill the seat. Will you join us on the conference call to be a part of the discussion and learn how you can help?
Yes, I’ll RSVP now to join the call with Sen. Warren.
So much is at stake in this fight. If we win and fill the seat, justices appointed by Democratic presidents would hold a majority on the Supreme Court for the first time in four decades.2 We could reverse Citizens United, stop states from closing abortion clinics, restore voting rights, and so much more. We’d affect the fundamental direction of the Court not for a year or two but possibly for a generation.
That's why Elizabeth Warren is joining us and members of many other progressive organizations in this massive campaign. And we know we can break Republican obstructionism—we've done it before, in the fall of 2013, when we forced Republicans to end the government shutdown. Now we need to do it again.
Please join us for a special conference call with Elizabeth Warren on Monday, April 4, at 8 p.m. ET to talk and strategize about what it's going to take to break the GOP blockade of the Supreme Court.
Thanks for all you do.
—Jo, Emily, Tzyh, Brian, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Supreme Court Fight: Quarter of Republican Senators Now Back Meetings for Merrick Garland," NBC News, March 29, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/2485?t=5&akid=163631.10220574.hrcOPX
2. "After 45 years of conservative rulings, here’s what a liberal Supreme Court would do," The Washington Post, February 19, 2016
https://act.moveon.org/go/2168?t=7&akid=163631.10220574.hrcOPX
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I listened to the call. What the American public wants (Dems, Repubs, Indeps, et al), is for EVERY politician to be so upstanding that they call out EVERYONE who is not up to par. That means more than calling out the other party. It also means Democrats calling out corrupt, weaseling, non-law-abiding democrats and upstanding Republicans calling out the same on their side. The parties need to cleanse themselves.
ReplyDeleteAs Warren has criticized even Obama in the past, there should be outcries from within that, for instance, hounded The President when he didn't do his legal duty to have budgets ready on time.
If both sides would cut loose their dead wood, there would be a real chance for bi-partisan cooperation as we The People would have the very best minds AND HEARTS representing all points of view.
It's another point altogether but Warren is 100 times the current woman running for the presidential nomination. As for Bob, he could have toned down his rhetoric a little to make sure it was all non-fiction - pushed the envelope a bit into fear-mongering.