If you are in need of some arguments for your Senator, I sent this to number of wavering Dems. You’re welcome to plagiarize and make it more personal!
Dear Senator,
I am writing with utmost concern about the potential confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice. His long record of biased judgements and opinions expressed in favor of the powerful shows clearly that he will not be an arbiter of fairness nor will he uphold the principles of our Constitution. Imperfect though they may be, these principles protect the less powerful and the ordinary citizen, and our history has been one of extending those protections to an ever larger number of our citizens. It has also been one of concerted resistance to that extension, on the part of an entrenched and powerful minority. If the Democratic Party (of which I am an active member) stands for anything it should be for the protection of the citizen through as impartial a rule of law as possible, and for the passage of ever more fair and inclusive laws.
We Americans owe the long period of prosperity from which my parents benefited to a framework of limits to the power of moneyed interests and large corporations, and one of social “safety net” protections that allowed them to weather the inevitable ups and downs of their working lives. My generation is indebted as well to the rulings in favor of the right of a woman to choose if and when she will bear children. However, we also owe our growing precarity to the abandonment of much of that framework. (I'm among those whose work, while appreciated by many, is not paid at a rate that would allow me to save for retirement.)
Judge Kavanaugh has shown, over his career, that he will oppose those principles and the defense of the safety and prosperity of the individual, in service of the powerful and of the lobby that wishes to return women to a subservient state.
While I am not a direct constituent (I am a Michigan resident), I would like to remind you that, as our legislature is constituted, you have a charge that is greater than that of simply representing your own state. Your position on these issues affects all of us. And the greater question is perhaps whether you will vote to strip your own constituents of their needed constitutional protections because of a poisoned political climate in which many cannot see the issues clearly. I call on all Democratic representatives, and good-hearted Republicans as well, to consider the long-lasting perils of a Kavanaugh appointment and to vote NO.
Respectfully yours, Janet Cannon