In addition to the fate of Women's Reproductive Rights, the appointment of the next Associate Justice to the Supreme Court will impact this country in other ways for generations to come. Evidence is mounting that our current President and his associates colluded with this nation's enemies to rig this country's 2016 Presidential Election. It seems more likely each day that the continued existence of our Democracy may depend on decisions made by the U.S.Supreme Court. The Justices may well be asked to rule on the constitutionality of : a) Requiring a sitting President to appear before a Grand Jury when subpoenaed; b) A President pardoning him/herself or his/her co-conspirators in an act of espionage c) Indicting a sitting President. We must use every resource within our power to ensure that the next Associate Justice is a person of character and not a potential co-conspirator. Sens. Murkowski and Collins hold the power ensure that and we must force them to use it.

I do not trust that Trump will not do whatever he thinks he needs to do to win the mid-terms, including conspiring with Russia to interfere. Until his innocence is demonstrated, he must not be allowed to meet alone and off the record with Putin.

The Democratic Women of Mecklenburg County and our community at large believe in protecting the safety, civility, and dignity of our beautiful and diverse community.

JIM JORDAN ENABLED SEXUAL PREDATORS TO MOLEST BOYS

Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is a day that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans throughout the former Confederacy of the southern United States. Its name is a portmanteau of "June" and "nineteenth", the date of its celebration. The news of General Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9 moved slowly and did not reach Texas until May 1865. The Army of the Trans-Mississippi did not surrender until June 2. On June 18, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived at Galveston Island with 2,000 federal troops to occupy Texas on behalf of the federal government. The following day, standing on the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of "General Order No. 3", announcing the total emancipation of those held as slaves: By the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement focused the attention of African-American youth on the struggle for racial equality and the future, but many linked these struggles to the historical struggles of their ancestors. Following the 1968 Poor People's Campaign to Washington D.C. called by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, many attendees returned home and initiated Juneteenth celebrations in areas where the day was not previously celebrated. Since the 1980s and 1990s, the holiday has been more widely celebrated among African-American communities. This should be a national holiday.

Our democracy requires citizens to evaluate candidates and then vote. Citizens deserve to evaluate a presidential debate that is based on verifiable facts rather than spin, misinformation, or outright lies. Candidates should not get to score cheap debating points or audience applause lines based on untrue statements.

This petition is to delay an appointment of a Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Kennedy until after the November general election. The people must be able to vote for the candidate who best represents the majority. The wrong Justice could mean an end to Roe v Wade, LGBQT and immigrant rights and healthcare. In addition there will be an increase in more harsher and unequal laws on criminal justice sentencing and voting rights.

Making term limits on judges. No one should have a lifetime government position.

Closed primaries are just another form of gerrymandering

After the stunning success of Moveon in organizing the June 30th march for refugee children, we should broaden the non-partisan action with a march on August 30th to include civic justice in general: ending vote suppression, anti-majority vote rigging. and gerrymandering, For coming elections to be fair, registration and voting must be unfettered, votes must be counted correctly, and and allocation of representation must in line with votes. This is necessary to control our government to get justice for all.

Until the Mueller investigation is complete, Donald Trump should not make such a history-altering appointment to the Supreme Court. We need some moderate Republicans to flip control of the Senate to buy some time for everything to cool off a bit and to develop a more bipartisan approach to filling such an important judicial position. It would also only be "fair," given what McConnell and company did in the Merrick Garland/Neal Gorsuch case. It would only take flipping one or two "country over party" Republicans to change control of the Senate.

Our nation has been attacked by what can be categorized as an act of war by a hostile foreign nation aimed at destroying the very foundation of our democratic and legal systems. As a result, the core of our nation is under threat. Since it has been proven that members of the Trump campaign illegally conspired with this hostile foreign nation, the President is illegitimate. Therefore, all of this administration's related policies, decisions, and appointments should be considered an extension of this attack and immediately be rendered null-and-void in order to preserve our fragile democracy.