SIGN HERE: It’s Time for Senate Democrats to Take a Stand

Dear Minority Leader Schumer and Members of the Democratic Caucus of the U.S. Senate:

You clearly lack the legislative power to stop the morally-bankrupt Republican hypocrites in the U.S. Senate from confirming a far-right ideologue to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court just days before the most divisive and consequential election in American history.

This unfortunate reality demands that you embrace the inescapable moral and constitutional obligation you have to use every power at your disposal to brand this corrupt process as the illegitimate farce it is and to discredit permanently the judicial fitness of any nominee who agrees to be a part of it. Any nominee willing to be considered or confirmed by this sham process is definitionally unfit to serve in the United States Supreme Court. 

We, the undersigned, demand that each of you use every possible procedural tool at your disposal to disrupt and delay this public fraud. Among other things, you should:

• Boycott the confirmation hearings entirely;
• Block the typically-proforma ‘Unanimous Consent’ agreements that set the daily schedule and the terms of conduct for Senate business, including any resolutions to adjourn the Senate;
• Repeatedly force your Republican colleagues to produce the quorum of 51 Senators necessary to conduct Senate business on their own.

We are well aware that none of these suggested actions will prevent power-hungry Republicans and their billionaire political benefactors from seating the nominee of their choice regardless of how distasteful their ideology may be to the majority of Americans. But battles that may be lost, must nevertheless be fought, so that the war for our future may be won.

Each of you must decide if you will be the steadfast champions of democracy this nation deserves or if you will roll over and take it from an opponent who will trample the tatters of our democracy to ensure our citizens are subject to their nihilistic minority rule in perpetuity.

President Trump has publicly stated his intention to remain in office regardless of the outcome of this election. The very last thing the 47 of you should do is aid and abet him in that process. Conferring any legitimacy on this process will do just that. 

To be clear, you no longer have the option to stand idly by and wait for things to ‘play out.’ You are risking the integrity of our country’s most sacred values, institutions, and system of democracy itself if you confer legitimacy on a nakedly corrupt, profoundly illegitimate process.

Sincerely,

Every Decent American

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