USA – Memo to Chuck Schumer: Stop Dithering and Start Fighting. Now.

Memo to Chuck Schumer: Stop Dithering and Start Fighting. Now.

Jul 9, 2018
Jodi Jacobson

I have some questions for Chuck Schumer.

Senator Schumer: You seem to be treating the nomination of a second Supreme Court justice by Donald Trump as business as usual. But it is not. Nothing is usual. Nothing is normal. What don’t you understand about this?

What don’t you get about the fact that Trump is under federal investigation and possibly facing criminal charges? Or that he has actually suggested he can pardon himself?

Continued: https://rewire.news/article/2018/07/09/memo-chuck-schumer-stop-dithering-start-fighting-now/


With Kennedy Retiring, Senate Democrats Need to Fight for Our Lives. Do They Have the Guts?

With Kennedy Retiring, Senate Democrats Need to Fight for Our Lives. Do They Have the Guts?

Jun 28, 2018,
Jodi Jacobson

This is not a drill. This is not politics as usual. This is survival. The Democrats must treat it as such or, if we survive to write a history, be forever infamous for preemptive surrender.

At the end of a week in which the illegitimate U.S. Supreme Court pick of an illegitimate president now under criminal investigation provided the critical fifth vote on cases eviscerating labor rights, the rights of Muslims, and the rights of pregnant people to medically accurate information, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. As a result, Donald Trump (or more accurately Vice President Mike Pence and the Federalist Society) will make the most consequential Court pick for at least a generation. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) has, not surprisingly, already vowed to confirm Trump’s nominee by the fall, without even knowing who that will be.

Continued: https://rewire.news/article/2018/06/28/kennedy-retiring-senate-democrats-need-fight-lives-guts/