Today’s Action: The fight for SCOTUS just got even more intense

Trump and McConnell are depending on the narrow Republican majority to force through a historically short confirmation process mere weeks before the election. The GOP has a 53-47 hold in the Senate, and only require a simple majority to confirm Trump’s extreme right-wing majority, Amy Coney Barrett.

But in the past few days, we’ve learned that Trump and nearly a dozen high-ranking GOP officials have tested positive after a maskless, undistanced super-spreader event at the White House to introduce Barrett…including three Republican Senators, two of whom are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which threatens their majority.

This plan is now not only a hypocritical rush-job that could overturn abortion rights, protections for pre-existing conditions, gay marriage and so much more…but it’s also now a potential public health crisis to reconvene the Senate to make it happen.

And guess what: there are a few other Trump judicial confirmations planned in addition to Barrett’s, which would aid and abet the GOP agenda for decades to come. So we don’t just want to stop Barrett’s confirmation…we want to stop ALL of them.

Time to obstruct.

Call, email and tweet at your Senators:

Tell DEMOCRATS to use EVERY procedural tool at their disposal over the next three months to slow or block each step of the SCOTUS confirmation – and every other judicial confirmation – until we have a new President. Including: the “two-hour rule,” refusing consent to slow down all legislation, denying quorum, points of order and roll call votes, and delaying the committee vote.

Tell REPUBLICANS that this vote is now a public health crisis and convening with the pandemic inside the halls of Congress is an unacceptable risk for an already-illegitimate confirmation process. Demand they vote against moving forward with the proceedings or confirming any nominee before we have a new President.

RBG would be proud of our fight – in fact, she explicitly called for it before her death. Remember her spirit and passion for justice as you make your daily calls.