SCOTUS Is Using The Constitution to Reinforce White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Heteronormativity
The Right Has Hijacked America: Recent SCOTUS Rulings Impact BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Women with Disproportionate Destructiveness
QUICK READ: A recent set of judicial rulings concerning gun control, reproductive freedom, and the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) as well as several cases set to be heard next year about voting rights and affirmative action all negatively impact or outright attack the freedoms of BIPOC and women in the US.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
BACKGROUND
“How can [a] set of laws still guide a nation” asks Candice McDuffie, a writer for the Root, “when it was concocted by white men who looked at Black people as property and not as human?”
A recent set of judicial rulings concerning gun control, reproductive freedom, and the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) as well as several cases set to be heard next year about voting rights and affirmative action all negatively impact or outright attack the freedoms of BIPOC and women in the US.
Moreover, overturning Roe refutes the 13th and 14th Amendments abolishing slavery and compulsory pregnancy thereby erasing Black women from the Constitution and demonstrating “indefensible disregard for the lives of women, girls, and people capable of pregnancy,” UC Irvine professor law, Michele Goodwin, wrote in the NY Times.”
Many believe the court “could be aiming its legal firepower at everything from contraception access to LGBTQ+ rights.”
In the space of ten days, SCOTUS will have rewritten “as much American law as any Congress or presidency in recent memory” despite the slow-moving pace set by the court over 200+ years.
Gun violence, inadequate access to reproductive care, and EPA restrictions impact low-income people and BIPOC for various reasons including the impact that gun violence has on communities of color; a lack of health care access for women of color in particular; and the reality that BIPOC are disproportionately victimized by environmental hazards.
Has SCOTUS hijacked America?
ACTION One: Call the Senate.
Script for Oregon Senators
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
The GOP is using SCOTUS to push an ultra-conservative agenda. We need court reform and we need you to use your bully-pulpit to address these egregious rulings loudly. They do not represent what most Americans want and they were made by justices appointed by GOP Presidents who won the popular vote just once in 30 years.
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].
The GOP is using SCOTUS to push an ultra-conservative agenda. We need court reform and we need you to use your bully-pulpit to address these egregious rulings loudly. They do not represent what most Americans want and they were made by justices appointed by GOP Presidents who won the popular vote just once in 30 years.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
We need you to use your bully-pulpit to address the egregious errors made by the Supreme Court in recent days. Their decisions do not represent what a majority of Americans, democrats and republicans alike, believe and want.
ACTION TWO: 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].
The GOP is using SCOTUS to push an ultra-conservative agenda. We need court reform and we need you to use your bully-pulpit to address these egregious rulings loudly. They do not represent what most Americans want and they were made by justices appointed by GOP Presidents who won the popular vote just once in 30 years.
Script for Cliff Bentz (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].
We need you to use your bully-pulpit to address the egregious errors made by the Supreme Court in recent days. Their decisions do not represent what a majority of Americans, democrats and republicans alike, believe and want.
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].
The GOP is using SCOTUS to push an ultra-conservative agenda. We need court reform and we need you to use your bully-pulpit to address these egregious rulings loudly. They do not represent what most Americans want and they were made by justices appointed by GOP Presidents who won the popular vote just once in 30 years.
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].
The GOP is using SCOTUS to push an ultra-conservative agenda. We need court reform and we need you to use your bully-pulpit to address these egregious rulings loudly. They do not represent what most Americans want and they were made by justices appointed by GOP Presidents who won the popular vote just once in 30 years.
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].
The GOP is using SCOTUS to push an ultra-conservative agenda. We need court reform and we need you to use your bully-pulpit to address these egregious rulings loudly. They do not represent what most Americans want and they were made by justices appointed by GOP Presidents who won the popular vote just once in 30 years.
ACTION 3: GOOD TROUBLE
GOOD TROUBLE: Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, go make some “good trouble.”
NEXT TUESDAY LETTER WRITING PARTY, 11:30am-12:30pm - INDIVISIBLE OREGON:
https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/442887/Fridays at 4 - Letter and Postcard Writing — Indivisible Oregon.
Learn about persuasive language and communication research at the Zoom ASO Movement Briefings every second Wednesday.
Join the campaign to hold the House and Senate at GiveNoGround.org
Work to protect democracy in the House by replacing retiring US Representative Peter DeFazio with another Democrat, replacing Democrat Kurt Schrader, the “Manchin of the House,” with a progressive, and electing a Democrat in Oregon’s new Congressional District 6.
Demand that your primary news source stop creating false equivalencies and just report the truth.
Check out the Poor People's Campaign Readies 'Massive, Nonviolent' Effort to Save Democracy
Outside of Portland? Check out COIN Oregon.
further reading:
The Constitution Was Literally Written By Slaveowners. Why Is America Obsessed With Upholding It?
It Took The Supreme Court Just 10 Days To Change America As We Know It | HuffPost Latest News
How Roe v. Wade Reversal Could Impact Other Rights
Opinion | No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution - The New York Times
Who overturning Roe hurts most, explained in 7 charts - Vox
A new Supreme Court case is the biggest threat to US democracy since January 6
A Recent Survey Casts New Light On America's Racial Divide In Clean Tap Water Access
