Make these calls!

[G_j]

Trump has chosen his nominee from a list compiled by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. Without question, these groups are committed to a hard-right agenda.

Our country deserves better.

Make your voice heard today! Contact the following six key senators – whose votes could make the difference – and tell them not to be a rubber stamp for the Federalist Society. Tell them to vote "no" on this Supreme Court nomination.

Joe Manchin (WV)
Phone: [phone]
Twitter: @Sen_JoeManchin

Joe Donnelly (IN)
Phone: [phone]
Twitter: @SenDonnelly

Heidi Heitkamp (ND)
Phone: [phone]
Twitter: @SenatorHeitkamp

Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Phone: [phone]
Twitter: @lisamurkowski

Susan Collins (ME)
Phone: [phone]
Twitter: @SenatorCollins

Doug Jones (AL)
Phone: [phone]
Twitter: @SenDougJones

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1. Kick for visibility!

Make those calls!

[ancianita]

2. Here's the text of my messages to each and every one of them.

Senator ___, my name is ____. I am a US citizen and registered voter. I urge you to uphold your oath to protect and defend the Constitution in the upcoming Senate vote on SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

What I and other citizens care about above all is national security, and the preservation of our Constitution, however it weathers modern problems, and however you weather political blowback on this SCOTUS vote.

I ask you to vote "NO" on the Kavanaugh nomination, because the public and I know that Mr. Trump doesn't have to convince Kavanaugh to protect him from a solicitor general prosecution under SCOTUS, which I and the American public know is likely.

Kavanaugh is on record himself, saying that he would vote down any case made against this president before SCOTUS. The public knows this is why Trump nominated Kavanaugh out of the whole list of equally qualified candidates.

For you to vote on this nominee, you would aid and abet the SCOTUS dissolution of a criminal investigation on this president, an investigation that’s made 22 indictments with 5 guilty pleas, with names under seal of those yet to be indicted, and, in my view you would break your oath to protect and defend our Constitutional republic from foreign and domestic enemies.

Neither should your (name the state) constituents’ political beliefs take precedence or outweigh our whole nation’s current national security problems.

And please don’t get me started over the settled constitutional law of Roe v Wade that affects over half this country’s citizens' constitutional freedoms.

At the very worst, for you to suffer being primaried -- when weighed with voting against this nominee who says he’d protect a president who may be named in sealed indictments -- yours would be the most patriotic "no" vote you could cast.

I want you, Mr./Ms. ____, to vote NO on Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination.


(If you call them, don't forget to hit #1 to "Send," or they won't get the message. AND talk fairly fast to make your case.)

[G_j]

3. Thank you!

[ancianita]

4. Just tryin' to do my citizen's duty. Let's hope for the best!

[RandomAccess]

5. Some other ways to contact them -- AND ammunition too

Call 24/7: 202-224-3121
Free Faxes (can incl up to 3 pages attached) to Senators: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Free Faxes (ditto) to Congress: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php
TEXT your faxes: Text RESIST to 50409
Write your MoC - DEMOCRACY.IO https://democracy.io/#/


AMMUNITION -- Some important non-Roe reasons he shouldn't be approved:

FOR THE DEMS:
CNN’s political strategist breaks down perfect reason no red-state Democrat should support Trump’s SCOTUS nominee 09 Jul 2018 at 16:43 ET https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142105114
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During a conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Begala said that it’s an “easy” decision and there is no question, any Democrat in a red-leading state or district should oppose whomever the nominee happens to be.
“Here’s why,” Begala began. “No Republican paid a price at all at the polls for opposing Merrick Garland, who was President [Barack] Obama’s moderate choice. A moderate nominee of a popular president, they opposed him in lockstep and nobody suffered.”
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“So, you’re not going to gain a single vote supporting this nominee as a Democrat in a red state,” he continued. “If you do support it, you lose the Democrats. So, I think it’s actually an easy vote, not a difficult one. I’m glad they’re going — they should hear him out. I think terrific, the American way. But the politics are actually not hard for the red state Democrats.
In many red states, Democrats often believe that they have to persuade conservatives to vote for them rather than to invest in getting out the vote for their own base. Republicans, by contrast, get their base to the polls and attack their opposition.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/cnns-political-strategist-explains-perfect-reason-no-red-state-democrat-support-trumps-scotus-nominee/


FOR EVERYONE:

White House doesn't deny report Trump made secret deal with Kennedy over retirement, replacement
It's not supposed to work like this. AARON RUPAR JUL 10, 2018, 9:24 AM
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210850641
During an CNN interview on Tuesday morning, White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah did not deny an NBC report that outgoing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy “received assurances” from President Trump that if he retired, Judge Brett Kavanaugh — one of Kennedy’s former clerks — would be nominated to be his replacement.
- Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett
Source familiar tells NBC that Justice Kennedy had been in negotiations with the Trump team for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh (his former law clerk) Kennedy felt comfortable retiring - @LACaldwellDC & @frankthorp
7:16 AM - Jul 10, 2018

Link to tweet

Asked repeatedly if some sort of deal between Trump and Kennedy was struck before Kennedy announced his retirement, Shah dodged, saying things like “I’m not going to read out private conversations that Justice Kennedy had with either members of the White House or the president,” and, “Justice Kennedy can speak for himself.” But what Shah didn’t do is deny that the NBC report is accurate.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-anthony-kennedy-brett-kavanaugh-corrupt-secret-deal-13fd59473ecf/


How The Mueller Probe Could Derail Kavanaugh's Confirmation https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210850738
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/10/how-the-mueller-probe-could-derail-kavanaughs-confirmation.html
Posted on Tue, Jul 10th, 2018 by Leo Vidal
How The Mueller Probe Could Derail Kavanaugh’s Confirmation

There are two reasons the existence of Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump may force the Senate to put Kavanaugh’s nomination hearings on hold:

The belief that a president under criminal investigation should not be allowed to appoint someone to the Supreme Court, and

Kavanaugh’s former writings that express his views that a sitting president cannot be charged with crimes.

Ever since Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Cory Booker has said that there should be no vote on any Trump Supreme Court nominee until after the criminal investigation into Donald Trump ends. As Booker pointed out last month:

“If a president is the subject of a criminal investigation, as Donald Trump is, they can’t be expected to make a fair and reasonable nomination to the Supreme Court. Trump is compromised by the fact that issues that could arise associated with the investigation would be resolved by the Supreme Court.”
On June 29, Booker told Rachel Maddow that “constitutional questions about Trump being indicted would be fair game if Senate Republicans hold Supreme Court nominee confirmation hearings.”

And last night, after Trump announced Kavanaugh as his pick for the Supreme Court, Booker was very outspoken about the key issues that he sees coming out during Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, and why he should not be confirmed.

“I’ve been saying emphatically before this and now with even stronger voice that we as the United States Senate, forget partisanship or what have you, to avoid a constitutional crisis, we cannot let this confirmation process go forward. Especially now that we have someone who has clearly said that they have a strong opinion should any of those issues come before the Supreme Court.”

... In January, Senator Booker and California Senator Kamala Harris were both appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee where Kavanaugh has to go for confirmation. With those two outspoken progressive Democrats on the panel, there is no chance that any questions about Donald Trump’s potential indictments — or about Brett Kavanaugh’s view on those indictments — will be left unasked.


MORE AMMO FOR DEMS (MOSTLY)

In response to the trolls re Brett Kavanaugh not being so bad https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210851051
This guy has proven himself to be politically active in all, ALL, his opinions. All of them, and he’s been prolific in his decisions and written opinions. Just reading through them will guarantee the process of vetting him will take some time. He is clearly Trump’s wet dream come true.

Kavanaugh worked with Ken Starr and wrote the final report on Bill Clinton so at one time he seems to have been all for going after the President, yet now he has written that it would be too horrible for the country to pursue any legal action against a President. That includes impeachment, or, as is suspected, any crime Mueller will find that Trump has committed. Trump would get off scott free. Is it a wonder Trump picked him? Trump doesn’t do anything that doesn’t benefit him personally.

He worked in the Bush Administration in a very powerful position as a Bush aid. He was virtually part of every single policy decision made during that administration, which includes the lies they told to go to war with Iraq. Remember those lies? Or maybe you think they weren’t so bad?

And then there is his far right views on the 2nd Amendment. In his perfect world there would be no constraints on any kind of weapon the NRA espouses. He approves of semi automatic weapons and his judicial reason is because they are not singled out in the constitution as being exceptions to the 2nd amendment.

He doesn’t believe healthcare for everyone is Constitutionally mandated or that women have the right to choose. He denied a 17 year old illegal alien the choice to have an abortion and did his best to delay the court decision so the lawful period of having an abortion would pass. He was stopped in time and the court granted the girl her request.

There is plenty more which can also be found in the links below

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/brett-kavanaugh-trumps-supreme-court-pick-has-sided-with-broad-views-of-presidential-powers/2018/07/09/1618bec0-83a8-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e10fdf7bed4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/10/4-big-questions-about-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.e3baf4c0c055

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/business/kavanaugh-supreme-court-business-regulation.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/judge-brett-kavanaughs-impeccable-record-of-constitutional-conservatism/