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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Democrats should do EVERYTHING in their power to shut the Senate down. This is simple:
1) A literal Russian agent may actually be occupying the Oval Office.
2) It's the McConnell Doctrine—no SCOTUS nominations during an election year.
GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made that up out of whole cloth and now he should be stuck with it. If Democrats wonder why their base is heckling people—why voters seem especially restless or what some people are calling "uncivil"—it's precisely because our elected officials have failed to safeguard democracy at perhaps the darkest hour for our nation in nearly a century, if not more. Democrats just this week lamented that they didn't fight hard enough for President Obama's Supreme Court nomination. And Republicans have entirely abdicated their constitutional responsibility to serve a check on executive power.
In short, elected officials are no longer representing the wishes of a majority of voters—who also did not vote popular-vote loser Donald Trump into office. It’s a legitimate crisis of unrepresentative democracy.
Some will say, if the Senate Democrats take an unwavering stand, it will hurt red state Democrats this fall. Forget about it. SHUT IT DOWN by whatever means possible. Let the Joe Manchins of the Senate run on civility, against their own caucus. In the House, a real visceral fight from Democrats will only motivate the base that much more this fall.
If ever there were a time to turn the Supreme Court into an electoral issue on the left, this is it. If ever there were a time to FIGHT LIKE HELL for our democracy, this is it. Prove to THE PEOPLE—who did not popularly elect Donald Trump—that you are up to this political moment and worthy of their support.
Nothing less than the Republic is at stake.
And by god, no one who is still under suspicion of and investigation for obstructing justice and potentially being an agent of a foreign government should be allowed to nominate one of nine of the most powerful arbiters of fairness in our country. That is simply un-American.
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