WE CANNOT LET DARK MONEY FURTHER PERVERT JUDICIAL SELECTION
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Background
Trump, our most lawless President, has appointed 24% of active federal judiciary. He’s now ramming through a 6th Federalist Society Supreme Court Justice. Nearly 90% of appellate judges and both Supreme Court justices belong to Federalist Society, whose operations are funded by anonymous billionaires seeking to roll back post-New Deal reforms.
Amy Barrett’s confirmation hearings are the latest battleground in a five-decade-long war by Charles Koch and his allies to dismantle federal regulatory institutions that protect citizens from untrammeled corporate freedom and government programs that benefit health and well-being of all Americans.
Federalist Society and its right-wing allies spent millions in undisclosed corporate funding successfully promoting Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and accused sexual predator Kavanaugh—all Federalist Society members—using campaign contributions to GOP Senators to secure confirmations. They also generate lawsuits and fund amicus briefs aimed at overturning judicially what they couldn’t legislatively. The result so far, as Senator Whitehouse exposed—80 5-4 decisions where 5 Federalist Society judges gave GOP and wealthy donors anti-regulation, anti-union, anti-environment, anti-fair-election decisions. Barrett’s confirmation would hasten this trend.
We must prevent her confirmation and vote out both Trump and GOP Senators who serve their corporate masters, not their constituents who desperately need COVID relief.
1. Call the Senate.
Script Oregon Senators
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Dark money is perverting the judicial selection process and paving the way for Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation. Americans need COVID relief, not another Justice beholden to the Federalist Society, who will hasten the loss of our rights and liberties. I implore you to do everything in your power to:
Expose the right-wing takeover of the federal judiciary and Supreme Court that benefits anonymous corporate donors at the expense of the health and well-being of the rest of us.
Keep fighting to pass a meaningful COVID relief bill and to postpone a vote on a replacement to Justice Ginsburg until after the next President’s inauguration.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
Americans need COVID relief, not another Justice beholden to the Federalist Society, who will hasten the loss of the rights and liberties of your constituents. I implore you to put your constituents’ needs over party, work with Senate colleagues to pass a meaningful COVID relief bill and vote to postpone a vote on a replacement to Justice Ginsburg until after the next President’s inauguration. Your constituents are watching you.
2. Call the House.
Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Your constituents and our economy continue to suffer while the Senate wastes its time rushing through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Please continue to push for COVID relief legislation that protects workers—including front-line employees—and state and local governments and that creates a national plan for combatting the pandemic.
Script for Greg Walden (OR-02)
Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Your constituents and our economy continue to suffer while the Your constituents and our economy continue to suffer while the Senate wastes its time rushing through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Please put your constituents’ needs over party and push for COVID relief legislation that protects workers—including front-line employees—and state and local governments and that creates a national plan for combatting the pandemic.
Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Your constituents and our economy continue to suffer while the Senate wastes its time rushing through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Please continue to push for COVID relief legislation that protects workers—including front-line employees—and state and local governments and that creates a national plan for combatting the pandemic.
Script for Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Your constituents and our economy continue to suffer while the Senate wastes its time rushing through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Please continue to push for COVID relief legislation that protects workers—including front-line employees—and state and local governments and that creates a national plan for combatting the pandemic.
Script for Kurt Schrader (OR-05)
Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Your constituents and our economy continue to suffer while the Senate wastes its time rushing through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Please continue to push for COVID relief legislation that protects workers—including front-line employees—and state and local governments and that creates a national plan for combatting the pandemic.
3. Save Our Democracy.
Only 18 days before November 3! Get involved with Indivisible Oregon:
Only 18 days before November 3! Get involved with Indivisible Oregon:
Elections Power Hour weekly strategy call. Mondays at 5pm
Lots of phone banks, phone bank trainings for our adopted states, AZ and GA
Call Arizona voters. Thursdays, training at 5pm, calling begins at 5:30
Sources:
Sheldon Whitehouse masterfully exposes right-wing conspiracy to rig the courts
Amy Coney Barrett’s truly scary association
The Federalist Society, Dark Money, and Trump’s Court
A Right-Wing Rout: The Roberts Court’s Partisan Opinions
With Barret Nomination, a D.C. Conservative Power Couple Nears
Charles Koch’s Big Bet on Barrett
