As you read this, the Senate prepares to vote to change the rules. If they are allowed to do so, President Trump could win his battle to change our country into a place where only the connected, corporations, and even the corrupt have power — without accountability through the rule of law. In the less than 80 days since Donald Trump took office, he’s attempted to ban Muslims, end health care for 24 million people, break up immigrant families, abandon the responsibility to enforce laws that protect people from police brutality, and rescind the environmental rules that were saving our planet. Now he wants to remake our Supreme Court in his own political image by placing Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
Join the fight and call your senators now @ 888-877-2040 to say #StopGorsuch. The Supreme Court is a job for life.If Judge Gorsuch is confirmed, we’ll likely face 40 years of court decisions that favor corporations over workers as well as the privileged and powerful over the vulnerable who need their civil rights protected.
Yes, we can stop him by calling our Senators now at 888-877-2040.
Already our allies in the Senate are filibustering and delaying Gorsuch’s confirmation, but Republican leadership are planning to cheat by changing the rules to allow for him to be confirmed with only 51 votes, instead of the normal 60 needed to confirm a Supreme Court justice. We know it is better to have the seat go unfilled for the moment, rather than have it filled by the wrong person for 40 years.
Don’t change the rules, change the nominee.
If that’s not enough, well-connected and conservative partisans have donated millions of dollars to promote television ads making Gorsuch appear to be a friend of civil rights, when his record says otherwise. These well-to-do partisans are the same ones who donated millions to hold off President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court for nearly a year, preventing him from even getting a hearing. And yet they now want us to accept Gorsuch getting the express lane to the Supreme Court — with a rule change, too.
Please support our work as we continue to fight the important battles that protect democracy and the rights of all people.
Please call your senator now and tell them to #StopGorsuch and join us and over 200 organizations committed to protecting the civil rights that keep our democracy real. This is not a partisan question of which party gets a seat on the Supreme Court; it’s a question of whether our democracy will remain real to the average American. It’s about whether an administration that is running roughshod over the rights of many Americans will put a judge in the Supreme Court who won’t protect those rights.
We say unequivocally and unapologetically: “No.”
Visit our website for a page full of social media resources to help #StopGorsuch:
President Trump’s allies in the Senate are hell-bent on ramming through his extreme pick for the Supreme Court, promising a final vote this week.
We can’t allow politicians to install a justice on our highest court who’s hostile to women’s fundamental health and rights. With the future of abortion access, birth control coverage, and respect for people’s fundamental rights at stake, we have to make our voices heard — loud and clear, right now — before the final vote. As a Planned Parenthood Defender, you know the value of speaking out when it’s needed most.
No Senate action has higher stakes than the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. With a lifetime appointment, a single justice can dramatically reshape our most fundamental rights.
Thank you for making your voice heard when it matters most.
Sincerely, Cecile Richards, President Planned Parenthood Action Fund
CALL SCRIPT
Hi, my name is ____________ and I live in _____________.
I’m calling to ask my senator to vote NO on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
I’m extremely alarmed by Judge Gorsuch’s history of interfering with reproductive rights, including access to birth control and care at Planned Parenthood. Gorsuch has ruled in favor of the idea that corporations are people and a woman’s employer should be able to decide whether or not she has access to birth control. I do not trust him to uphold my fundamental rights, including the right to access abortion.
I’m counting on my senator to do the right thing and vote no on his nomination.
Thank you for your time.
(And if your senator opposes Gorsuch, thank them and encourage them to keep fighting!)
For a lot of us, fandom is an escape. An oversaturated surreal world populated with a rather high number of absurdly elaborate serial killers is actually a lot less scary than the one we happen to be living in right now.
Fandom is also a community. It’s this amazing thing that connects us.
And sometimes the passion and levity of a fandom can help us do things that maybe we wouldn’t otherwise have the means to do.
Fannibals are everywhere. We’re full of creativity and drive and, hey, pretty good at campaigning. But the things that we can do for the real world are wildly different depending on what state, what county, what town we live in. I’m hoping to a space where people who want to participate, who might already know one another through our awesome Fannibal Family, can connect and cheer on our people to get those things done.
This isn’t about pressure. This isn’t about forcing the inescapable awfulness of IRL into our fandom space, demanding that you stop writing fic and fax your senators.
This is for those who might find it helpful to bring the joy and community of fandom to things you were going to do anyway, or want to do.
