| Dear Indiana, Our fascist president is about to nominate someone to fill Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat - the same seat Senate Republicans stole from President Barack Obama. Trump has promised he will nominate someone ready to follow in Scalia's extremist footsteps, which could guarantee another generation under a conservative Supreme Court that wages war on women, workers, poor people, voting rights and the environment while giving unprecedented power to corporations and religious extremists. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and his colleagues have the power to block Trump's nominee. We have to make sure they use it to stand up for women, LGBTQ people, immigrants, Muslims, people of color, workers, the environment and the bedrock principles of our democracy. Tell Leader Schumer and all Senate Democrats: Block any Supreme Court nominee who won't stand up for progressive values and the people most threatened by Trump's dangerous agenda. Click here to sign the petition. Senate Democrats are our only firewall against a Supreme Court shaped by a corrupt president committed to a racist, xenophobic and misogynistic agenda. Leader Schumer has promised not to consider any nominee who is not "mainstream," but he has so far not clarified what "mainstream" means. It's a dangerous position and one we have to push back on now. Already, Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin has already said he'd consider a "mainstream conservative" nominee.1 And even though we're barely a week into the Trump administration, there's already ample, and disappointing, evidence that other Democratic Senators may be willing to "work with" Trump or support his nominees.2 It's important that progressives make perfectly clear that we expect Senate Democrats, especially Sen. Schumer, to defend our values. A judge in Scalia's model, who would go along with the extremism of the Roberts' court, would: - Restrict a woman's right to reproductive health care, including abortions;
- Curb the government's ability to fight climate change;
- Further undermine the Voting Rights Act and give a green light to voter suppression;
- Give corporations unchecked political power and unchecked power over consumers and workers;
- Discriminate against LGBTQ people, especially transgendered people; and
- Block gun control legislation.
There's nothing mainstream about this agenda that puts millions of people, our democracy and our entire planet at risk. Senate Democrats must refuse to normalize Republican extremism and keep it off the Court. Tell Leader Schumer and all Senate Democrats: Block any Supreme Court nominee who won't stand up for progressive values and the people most threatened by Trump's dangerous agenda. Click here to sign the petition. With Trump in the White House, Jeff Sessions aiming to take over the Department of Justice, and Republicans in both houses of Congress ready to run the table on their extremist agenda, the fight against a Trump Supreme Court could not be more important. There is no reason Senate Democrats should consider the path of compromise when Republicans spent almost a year blocking President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Republicans were willing to trash the decorum and customs of the Senate, ignore their constitutional duties and undermine the legitimacy of our country's first Black president for naked partisan political gain. We should be able to count on Democrats to be fierce, relentless and uncompromising in their defense of those most threatened by Trump and our democracy as a whole. Sen. Schumer and every single member of his Senate Democratic Caucus must hold the line in this fight. Click the link below to demand that Schumer and Senate Democrats defend the Supreme Court. https://act.credoaction.com/sign/defend_SCOTUS?t=7&akid=21472.7925804.GTd-XP Thanks for helping defend our Court, Heidi Hess, Senior Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: References:
1. WMAL, "LISTEN: SEN. BEN CARDIN on Trump's Federal Hiring Freeze: It Won't Save Money And Will Cost Money. It Will Cause Agencies To Be Inefficient., Jan. 24, 2017.
2. Clio Chang, "Democrats are messing this up already," New Republic, Jan. 25, 2017. | 
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