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To: Republican Senators
No more federal judicial confirmations until Inauguration Day 2021
Refuse to hold hearing on any further Trump Administration nominees to any federal court.
Why is this important?
Without the pretense of an interest in an independent judiciary, Republicans should no longer be permitted to debase the federal courts to the detriment of all Americans for generations.
Their appalling suggestion that judges should be Republicans is consistent with the party’s conviction that it should rule rather than govern. And they want to do so on behalf of less than a majority of Americans: primarily white, primarily male voter base.
Carl Hulse (March 16, 2020 edition of The New York Times: McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit) says: “Republicans are reminding the judges that it could be another eight years — 2029 — before they could leave under a Republican president.”
I therefore urge every Republican Senator to publicly and irrevocably state he or she that – until after Inauguration Day January 2021 - will not sit on any confirmation hearings or, if not on the Committee, will not vote to approve any nominee to a federal court.
Their appalling suggestion that judges should be Republicans is consistent with the party’s conviction that it should rule rather than govern. And they want to do so on behalf of less than a majority of Americans: primarily white, primarily male voter base.
Carl Hulse (March 16, 2020 edition of The New York Times: McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit) says: “Republicans are reminding the judges that it could be another eight years — 2029 — before they could leave under a Republican president.”
I therefore urge every Republican Senator to publicly and irrevocably state he or she that – until after Inauguration Day January 2021 - will not sit on any confirmation hearings or, if not on the Committee, will not vote to approve any nominee to a federal court.