To: The United States Senate
Senators: Reject SCOTUS Appointment
Senators:
Your constituents request that you reject Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination as a Supreme Court Justice. There are two guilty pleas and multiple criminal counts against President Trump’s campaign manager and staffers in proceedings that have shaken our faith in the integrity of our fundamental right to a meaningful vote. Judge Kavanaugh has clearly stated his belief in “... exempting a president—while in office—[even] from ... questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.” A lifetime Supreme Court appointment under these conditions threatens long-term, severe damage to a democracy already strained by presidential overreach.
Your constituents request that you reject Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination as a Supreme Court Justice. There are two guilty pleas and multiple criminal counts against President Trump’s campaign manager and staffers in proceedings that have shaken our faith in the integrity of our fundamental right to a meaningful vote. Judge Kavanaugh has clearly stated his belief in “... exempting a president—while in office—[even] from ... questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.” A lifetime Supreme Court appointment under these conditions threatens long-term, severe damage to a democracy already strained by presidential overreach.
Why is this important?
President Trump has repeatedly flouted the will of the majority, causing lasting harm to individuals from migrant children to our citizens with pre-existing healthcare conditions. The former touches me as a mother, the latter as well - willful sabotage of the ACA threatens my daughter’s well-being and even her life. Muslim Americans, LGBTQ community members, and many other people I count as friends are similarly harmed and perpetually on guard against new attacks on basic human and American rights by a president who rejects democratic debate and expresses authoritarian entitlement. Our faith in a fair, just land of opportunity for all is shaken, largely by the overreach of this President and the failure of Congress to provide reasonable checks on the President’s powers. These are extraordinary circumstances, including the active ongoing criminal indictments by Robert Mueller. The effect is a mass loss of confidence in our very democratic system. Our democracy will survive a mere delay in this president’s power to appoint a SCOTUS member until at least after 2018’s mid-term elections, when we’ve had a chance to express our preferences for representation. But our strained democracy will suffer irreparable harm if this president under these circumstances is green-lighted in his nomination for SCOTUS, especially where the nominee advocates even greater, nearly impenetrable presidential powers.