More Than A Magazine, A Movement
From far-right senators like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, to anti-LGTBQ villains like Lawrence VanDyke and Greg Katsas, those on the new Trump Supreme Court shortlist have displayed open hostility to civil and human rights.
We must put an end to Trump’s court takeover.
Patriarchy and white supremacy permeate our country, inspired by the president’s violent words—words with power and real-life consequences: On August 3, we remember the deadly massacre in El Paso targeted at the Latino and immigrant community. The shooter in that case also wrote a manifesto that mirrored Trump’s language.
The Salas shooter’s violent actions, Yoho’s profane outburst, and Trump’s disruptive forces come from the same white patriarchy that enables white men to target women of color with impunity.
Donald Trump is running from calls for justice. Instead, he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are fixated on our courts and pushing through nominees who they believe will roll back our hard-fought civil rights.
Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham are ignoring the calls to focus on the real needs of this country because they have not “yet felt the urgency of acting immediately.” Instead, they have prioritized Trump and McConnell’s “pre-existing partisan wish-list” to install more unqualified and biased nominees who jeopardize our civil rights and protections.
Smack in the middle of the pandemic, McConnell has forced senators back to Washington to quickly consider his crony JustinWalker for a seat on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—a seat that does not even become vacant until September.
After most Senate Republicans voted to cover up for a president who was impeached for demanding interference in our elections, Leader McConnell shamelessly picked up right where they left off and turned to filling the courts.
A president who is under the cloud of impeachment for abusing the power of his office and assaulting the legitimacy of our elections cannot be trusted to appoint judges who hold the duty of preserving and protecting our most fundamental rights, including our elections and the right to vote.
In just three years, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have transformed nearly one-fifth of the entire federal judiciary and a quarter of all circuit court judgeships. This is what that meant in 2019—for the courts, and for all of us.
The Senate returns to session this week, following the Thanksgiving break, and one of the first orders of business will be the cloture and final votes on the nominations of Eric Komitee and John Sinatra, who both refused to unequivocally state that the landmark decision in Brown was correctly decided.
“Harming our nation by placing party over country is nothing to congratulate yourself about.”
