Blueprint for Left's plan to disrupt SCOTUS Nomination
This guide was written and compiled by a coalition of groups including: MoveOn, Frontline/ M4BL Electoral Justice Project, Demand Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, CPD Action, Indivisible, and Sunrise Movement.
This is a guide to support and empower people who are ready to fight back this weekend when President Trump names a SCOTUS nominee and attempts to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat before the inauguration. We will be having a distributed day of action this Sunday, Sept 27 at 2pm local time. This guide will provide a roadmap for taking action, and ensure your actions align with actions across the country so that together, we can be a powerful united force for justice.
Register your event here: http://bit. ly/RegisterSCOTUSAction (list of events is forthcoming and will be available here).
STORY OF THE MOMENT
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, September 18, 2020. Many of us are grieving her death and remembering her legacy as a fearless champion for women’s rights and social justice.
With voting already underway, it should be left up to the American people to decide who gets to nominate the next Supreme Court justice. No nomination should advance or be voted on before the 2021 Inauguration.
Senate Leadership needs to prioritize economic relief for the millions of people who are suffering after having lost their jobs and are struggling to pay rent and feed their families, not play politics with a rushed Supreme Court nomination process.
In this moment of overlapping crisesa global pandemic, mass unemployment, systemic racism, and climate changethe stakes of nominating and confirming a new Supreme Court Justice could not be higher. Supreme Court justices are appointed for life and as the highest court in the US, their rulings shape all of our lives—everything from abortion to segregation, transgender rights to climate change, big money in politics to healthcare. It is unjust and unacceptable to try to rush through a nomination less than 40 days from the election.
With our futures on the line, we must rise up to demand that US Senators stand on the right side of history and let the people decide on the next Supreme Court Justice of this country. We must demand no nomination before inauguration. It’s our future and we should get to choose our justice.
MESSAGING
SLOGANS FOR ACTION ART
Slogans are a simplified version of your message. Having unified slogans helps us make our demands clear. Slogans are the words that we use on our action art. These slogans should be used in ALL CAPS on action art. For more information on how to make art for your action see the action visuals section below, or check out the action art toolkit.
NO CONFIRMATION BEFORE INAUGURATION
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE
OUR FUTURE, OUR JUSTICE
I DON’T WANT YOUR NOMINEE. I WANT _______ [fill in the blank to personalize]
JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR
RACIAL JUSTICE
ECONOMIC RELIEF
A GREEN NEW DEAL
MEDICARE FOR ALL
COVID TESTING
COVID RELIEF
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
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