Our judicial system is not doing great. Despite the fact that over 160 of President Biden’s judicial nominees have been confirmed to the federal bench,
SCOTUS has continued its assault on our fundamental rights. It was not enough to overturn abortion rights in 2022 – they went on to overturn affirmative action and allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. And that’s on top of the highly questionable and corrupt behavior that some justices have exhibited off the bench.
At the same time, Senate Republicans have been using an archaic Senate rule known as the “blue slip” to veto President Biden’s pro-democracy nominees for federal courts. They’re holding that if they can keep these vacancies open long enough, a Republican can fill them with anti-democratic MAGA judges instead.
We need the Senate to act now to protect democracy and restore legitimacy and trust to the courts. Reach out to your Senator today and ask them to unrig the courts by:
- Cosponsoring the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (SCERT) to create enforceable ethical guidelines for SCOTUS and a binding code of conduct for justices
- Cosponsoring the Judiciary Act to save our constitutional and civil rights by adding four seats to SCOTUS
- Eliminating the use of blue slips so MAGA Republicans can’t obstruct filling all federal bench vacancies with pro-democracy judges by the end of 2024
