Contact your Senator and demand he holds hearings on new Supreme nomination!
take action
Help make a fuss over the intent to hijack the Supreme Court nomination. Timely letters to the editor and social media comments will influence public opinion. There is no procedure to force the Judiciary Committee to hold hearings. The public must demand this.
Please also contact Grassley, head of the Judicary Committee, to protest his anti-democratic actions, and ask your own state senators to pressure the committee.
talking points
Feel free to cut and paste any of the talking points
Dear Senator ___:
As [your constituent and] a believer in the democratic process, I'm dismayed and appalled over the announced intent of some senators to openly hijack President Obama's right to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat. The Constitution calls for the president to nominate a replacement and for the Senate to expeditiously consider that nominee. To actively obstruct the nomination process is an injury to the will of the American people who twice elected Obama, and would be a crippling blow to our country's legal landscape.
The reason given for delay is spurious and hypocritical. President Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court and the Senate confirmed him during the 1988 presidential process. In his announcement, Reagan explained why filling the vacancy expeditiously was important, noting that we need to "join together in a bipartisan effort to fulfill our constitutional obligation of restoring the United States Supreme Court to full strength. ... I look forward to ... prompt hearings, conducted in the spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship."
I urge you to do everything within your power to restore the Supreme Court to full strength and to encourage your fellow senators to do the same.
U.S. Senators
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Contact Senator Chuck Grassley, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and your two U.S. senators now to demand action!
• Senator Chuck Grassley
135 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3744 (D.C. office)
•Your state senators
Locate your senators and their contact information
• If you have time, contact other members of the Judicary (please especially be sure to contact your senator if he or she sits on the Senate Judicary Committee).
Republican Senate Judiciary Members are: Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Utah; Senator Jeff Sessions, Ala.; Senator Lindsey Graham, S.C.; Senator John Cornyn, Texas; Senator Ted Cruz, Texas; Senator Jeff Flake, Ariz.; Michael S. Lee, Utah; Senator David Vitter, La.; Senator David Perdue, Ga.; Senator Thom Tillis, N.C.
Democratic members are: Senator Patrick Leahy, Vt.; Senator Dianne Feinstein, Calif.; Senator Charles Schumer, N.Y.; Senator Dick Durbin, Ill.; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, R.I.; Senator Amy Klobuchar, Minn.; Senator Al Franken, Minn.; Senator Christopher A. Coons, Del., and Senator Richard Blumenthal, Conn
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