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"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced
until a new president is installed," - Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg
Friend,
Not even 24 hours after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away,
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell,
began their plans to compromise our democracy by hastily filling
her vacant Supreme Court seat ahead of election day.
We cannot let this happen.
For months, we’ve known that our very lives were at stake with
this election, and now this administration is desperately bent
on setting the stakes even higher. RBG left behind a legacy that
upheld equity, fairness and the elimination of discrimination.
President Trump's record speaks for itself – with two Supreme
Court appointees who have already proven to be hostile to civil
rights, his next pick is all but sure to be an extremist.
We have to stop him now.
The Senate has a duty to hold the Supreme Court seat open until
the next president is sworn in. This was RBG’s dying wish, and
it is also what Mitch McConnell forced the Senate to do during
President Obama’s last year.
Contact your Senators today and urge them to keep RBG’s
seat open until after inauguration day next year.
The presidential election is already underway, and our community
is already voting. President Trump should not use the Supreme
Court seat as a last ditch attempt to further pull this country
away from progress.
We can’t let him.
Friend, this is one of the most urgent requests I’ve asked you
for this year. The conscience and integrity of our democracy
hang in the balance, and it’s up to us to save them.
Contact your Senators today and demand that the seat stay open.
It is the right thing to do.
Fighting Forward,
Derrick Johnson
@DerrickNAACP
President and CEO
NAACP
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