Tag: #stopkavanaugh

Fri 8/24: Get ready for your Kava-never weekend…

Sunday, Aug. 26th is National Women’s Equality Day!

The United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women full and equal voting rights on this day in 1920.  In 1971, Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) sponsored the resolution and every year since, each president declares this day as Women’s Equality Day.

This should be interesting… The Center for American Progress put out this great list in 2017 of 100 ways the Trump administration is feverishly working to harm the rights of women and families. It should be substantially longer by now, including a threatening gag rule on doctors, attacking the UN’s resolution supporting breastfeeding, attacking SNAP,  and gutting the asylum categories most used by women.

We have work to do!

Action #1 – Join in at the “Write For Your Rights” event!

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Tues 8/21: Kavanaugh-t Tuesday – The fifth vote for more Citizens United nonsense.

This quote by Bernie gets corporate knickers in a twist, but it clearly expresses what most voters want – a Supreme Court Justice who will limit corporate money in politics, not someone who will abolish abortion or gay marriage. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, will continue the line of decisions that created Citizens United, further demolishing the principle of political equality, limiting our ability to combat corruption and encouraging the bizarre spectacle of for-profit, secular corporations suing to avoid laws due to their “religious values“. The Hobby Lobby win, which was dependent on Citizens United ruling, opened a Pandora’s box of religious divisiveness. It immediately allowed secular corporations to deny women access to any contraceptives that they found “theologically objectionable“.

Action #1 – We need to start reversing Citizens United…

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Mon – 8/20: Your Monday Kavanaugh-t – Follow the paper trail…

A right-wing extremist minority is within one SCOTUS seat of erasing the progressive gains of the last 50 years.

Senator Feinstein’s staff met with Indivisible East Bay recently and told them that they aren’t hearing from us, her constituents, opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination. Fewer than 33,000 people have called her office opposing the Kavanaugh nomination, in comparison to the hundred thousand contacts opposing Neil Gorsuch by the time of his 2017 Judiciary Committee vote. This is strange because polls indicate only 37% think the Senate should vote to confirm Kavanaugh, making him “the least popular SCOTUS pick in decades”.

But our legislators are Blue! They already know what we want! WHY DO I HAVE TO CALL?!?

Our members of Congress (MoCs) staff tally numbers of contacts per zip code per issue every day and give those numbers to the Senator. They use those numbers to justify actions they take and how strongly they push. And if we don’t call, you can bet they’re still hearing from the other side, like NRA members and forced-birthers. Emails are fine, too. Get your phones set up for fast calling, and try the less popular offices like Fresno and San Diego, first. If the lines are busy, set a timer for a half-hour and call back.

Every day, we will present a new aspect of what we’re fighting for.

Action #1 –  We want transparency. Cough up the paperwork.

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Wed – 8/1: The great Kavanaugh Paper Caper

(A copy of the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,’ a 1,097-page Republican tax bill, including 503 pages of legislative text. Redistributing wealth upwards is complicated!.)

The GOP doesn’t mind huge amounts of paperwork…

They just ignore it. They passed their 500+ page tax scam even though Rand Paul stated “Not one member of the Senate will read this bill before we vote on it.” The GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee managed to ignore all the evidence on the connection between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin and walked away.

Why put on the brakes now?

The GOP suspects that Democrats will actually scrutinize every page on Brett Kavanaugh’s past before his nomination can be sent to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote, which Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley wants to happen prior to the November 6th election. So he’s trying to limit how far they can go. Democrats requested the emails and other papers from Kavanaugh’s time as staff secretary in the Bush administration, which Grassley refused to ask for. Considering that Ryan Bounds was knocked out of contention for a federal bench seat by articles he wrote for his college paper, this exception is arbitrary. Both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kagan generated substantial volumes of documents accumulated in their previous positions, and both nominees had these documents released as part of their confirmation process. Dianne Feinstein’s message to Grassley: “Your unduly restrictive reading of the law results in one political party having complete control over what records the Senate will be able to see,… a biased denial of document requests to one half of the Committee is unsupported by the law.”

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee fight back.

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Tues 7/10: Trump chose the smarmy lapdog for the hard-right. Now what?

Updated Resources 7/11/18

(from Indivisible National)

It’s happened: Trump has announced his nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. On July 9th, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and set the stage for a monumental shift in the Court’s makeup. If Trump is successful at getting Kavanaugh confirmed, the Court will work to preserve the Trump agenda for decades to come.

Key issues that affect us all hang in the balance, including reproductive rights, access to health care, LGBTQ rights, environmental protections, and much more. Further, the next Supreme Court justice could rule on cases involving Trump himself, whether resulting from the Mueller investigation or otherwise.

Brett Kavanaugh is one of the most cravenly partisan choices Trump could have made. He has been called the “Forrest Gump of Republican politics” because he always seems to show up in high-profile far-right conspiracy theories and political battles.

Here’s what you need to know about his nomination to the Supreme Court.

What’s at stake?

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