Stop Brett Kavanaugh (Time is running out!)
Kamala Harris<moveon-help@list.moveon.org>
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Dear MoveOn member,
Leaked emails show that Brett Kavanaugh misled the American people about his views on Roe v. Wade and his opinion of it as "settled law."
And that’s just the beginning of Kavanaugh’s misleading testimony. Brett Kavanaugh is not telling us the whole truth.
I'm fighting with everything I've got to make sure that Brett Kavanaugh never gets to sit on the Supreme Court. So are MoveOn and the protesters inside and outside the Senate chamber.
This is a lifetime appointment. After the Senate votes on his nomination, there's no going back.
But I'll be blunt: Time is running out, and we need your help.
I am so grateful for all of the work that MoveOn members have been doing to build the energy and urgency of this fight—and I can honestly tell you that it is having a big impact inside the halls of Congress.
Over the past week, MoveOn members have made tens of thousands of calls to Senate offices. I've heard from thousands of MoveOn members myself, with messages of support and encouragement to fight! These calls are critical to senators’ decision-making. They are how we gauge how our constituents are feeling, and as we saw last year in the fight to protect health care, they can be a deciding factor in how Congress votes.
MoveOn and allies have hosted rallies outside of the Capitol to show their opposition to Kavanaugh—even as hundreds of Americans have bravely shown up to protest inside the halls of Congress.
MoveOn's Video Lab team has been working overtime to create powerful videos showing the consequences of Kavanaugh's confirmation, which have already racked up millions of views and have helped spread the word about this dangerous nominee. I was honored to be featured in one of these videos!
And mobilizations in key states are taking place as we speak, while constituents share their personal stories—often deeply personal ones—that will be crucial as on-the-fence senators make up their minds about Kavanaugh.
It is critical that these efforts continue full steam and that energy remain high in these final days before the vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination. That's why I am now asking for your help:
Republicans insisted on rushing these hearings—two months before the National Archives could finish reviewing Kavanaugh's paper trail from his time as "the nerve center" of George W. Bush's White House. This kind of rushed, secretive process is unprecedented.
Republicans dumped 42,000 pages of documents regarding Kavanaugh’s judicial record on us, the hearing committee, the night before the hearing began, with no time to read them. My colleagues and I urged the Republicans to postpone the hearing, but they refused.
The Trump White House is hiding another 100,000 pages of documents, invoking an unspecified constitutional privilege.
And this week, Republicans openly encouraged Kavanaugh to refuse to answer even the most basic questions—and he happily obliged, because when I asked him about last year's deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, about his support for the Voting Rights Act, about protecting marriage equality, about women's access to abortion … he wouldn’t give an answer.
What’s being hidden about Brett Kavanaugh and his record? We know what it is: He is a dangerous partisan, and under no circumstances does he belong on the highest court in the land, a position from which he could negatively impact the lives of tens of millions of Americans for decades to come.
We are in the final rounds of this fight, and what happens in the next few days will impact us soon and for generations to come. But there is hope. I see it from my colleagues in the Senate. I see it in the faces of the women and men who are protesting and rallying and sharing their stories. I see it in you, Alfred.
Thanks for all you do.
–Senator Kamala Harris
P.S. On Thursday, during his confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh referred to birth control as "abortion-inducing drugs." He knows full well that there are laws that impact women and their bodies, but when I asked him during his confirmation hearings,: "Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?" he couldn’t think of any.
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