FW: Hell. No. (Stop Kavanaugh)
Dear MoveOn member,
This is an emergency.
Friday, the Republican majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Senate floor for a vote.
And MoveOn members are flooding the streets in protest.
We're not giving up. We can still stop Kavanaugh on the floor of the Senate.
Will you chip in $3 to MoveOn's emergency campaign to stop the GOP from ramming through Brett Kavanaugh's nomination?
It's outrageous. We're at risk of backsliding to 1991, to a brutal and shameful time when Anita Hill, a survivor of sexual harassment, was derided and shut down by the Senate Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearing.
Hell, no. We won't let it happen again. Not on our watch. The only person who should get shut down is Kavanaugh—which is why MoveOn members are sounding an emergency alarm and working around the clock on the ground and across the airwaves to reach Senators Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, and Lisa Murkowski, who are the three GOP senators most likely to vote no on Kavanaugh and bring this nightmare to an end.
There is an emerging glimmer of hope. Late Friday, as MoveOn members marched on the Senate office buildings in Washington, D.C., brave sexual assault victims inside confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator in a nationally-televised person-to-person moment of reckoning.2 And, just minutes later, Sen. Flake called for an FBI investigation.3
Now, we must keep the pressure on. Twenty-seven years ago, there was no justice for Professor Hill. But there must be justice today. We will not hand a lifetime appointment to our nation's highest court to a sexual predator. We will not go back.
Will you chip in $3 to MoveOn's all-out campaign to stop the GOP from ramming through Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination?
On Thursday, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford bravely recounted the sexual assault she suffered at the hands of Kavanaugh. And MoveOn members supported her and fought back against the GOP with everything we had—and we'll continue to do everything we can to make damn sure that a shameful moment in history is not repeated.
MoveOn's team worked through last night. And we will work through the weekend:
- Ramping up massive, targeted, rapid-response mobilizations in advance of tomorrow's potential first procedural vote by the full Senate to advance the confirmation;
- Directly supporting and elevating sustained and disruptive tactics in and around the Capitol and Senate buildings, led by women's rights allies and groups of sexual abuse survivors;
- Driving tens of thousands of phone calls to flood Senate offices via email, social media, text messages, and videos. Yesterday alone, MoveOn members made more than 10,000 phone calls;
- Mobilizing voters in key states and districts who will make sure that Republicans pay the price for their morally bankrupt and abusive actions around Kavanaugh's nomination.
In the last few days, the political ground has shifted because of massive protests and public outcry, stoked and supported by MoveOn members in every state in the nation, and a monumental movement has arisen amid the agony of what's now happening.
We were not able to block yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee vote. But we will do everything we can to stop Kavanaugh on the floor of the U.S. Senate. And we will go forward to Election Day, channeling our outrage into electoral wins that will take back our nation's House and Senate from the GOP—a political party willing to give an accused rapist a lifetime seat on the most powerful court in our land.
Thanks for all you do.
–Karine, Emily, Scott, Stephen, and the rest of the MoveOn Supreme Court team
Source:
1. "A Tumultuous 24 Hours: How Jeff Flake Delayed a Vote on Kavanaugh," The New York Times, September 28, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/52238?t=11&akid=217423%2E38417624%2Enrte-2
https://act.moveon.org/go/52238?t=11&akid=217423%2E38417624%2Enrte-2
2. Ibid.
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