Mitch McConnell infamously said "give the people a voice in the filling of this vacancy" by waiting until the new president took office.
Now that Justice Ginsburg has passed 47 days before the election, he MUST adhere to the same "principles."
Justice Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her seat would not be filled until a new president is installed! Senate Democrats, do not back down. You have a tough fight ahead but our future is on the line! No SCOTUS appointment before the election!!!
People have already LITERALLY started casting votes for the next President. If Mitch McConnell thinks we're just going to sit by passively and LET them replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he can go fuck himself.
It’s pathetic if it takes the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg for progressives to understand the judicial consequences of elections the way conservatives do. But I’ll take it. We failed her heroic legacy in 2016. We cannot afford to do it again. Vote.
Democrats should vow to increase the size of the Supreme Court to 13 justices & immediately nominate 4 new lifetime appointments upon Biden’s inauguration if Republicans break their own precedent & nominate a justice in an election year.
Woke up mad and dissenting. Furious at but her emails journalists, people who didn’t march with us for Merrick Garland or didn’t see Trump as dangerous or botched a historic campaign and .... I’ve got to channel my inner #RBG to fight for the future strategically. Wish me grace!
RBG’s passing has now made an already stark choice, come even more unavoidably into HD focus:
The choice on the November ballot is not Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden.
It’s Democracy vs. Dictatorship.
Justice Ginsburg was a titan—a relentless defender of justice and a legal mind for the ages.
The stakes of this election couldn’t be higher. Millions of Americans are counting on us to win and protect the Supreme Court—for their health, for their families, and for their rights.
Bernie supporters who refuse to vote 4 Biden have a decision.
RBG’s death should be awake up call 2 all progressives.
Republicans will appoint a Justice who’ll overturn Roe V. Wade
and the ACA.
Not only is progressive politics at stake but so is the future of our Republic!
VOTE
200,000 people have died in America over the past nine months - two hundred thousand souls! - and yet the incumbent president still has a good chance of winning re-election in a few weeks.
I feel like I am losing my mind.
"I want you to use my words against me. If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, 'Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’”
—Lindsey Graham, March 2016
The GOP isn’t ever going to play fair. They are in it only for their own power, not for the good of anyone else. So we must take that power from them. We must flip the Senate, take the White House, and undo any court stacking they have done with our own restorative actions.