Indivisibles,
Today the Supreme Court is hearing Trump v. United States. Despite the
iconic name (a good campaign slogan, no?), it’s a farce of a case that
reveals how broken the MAGA-stacked Supreme Court has become.
At stake is the question of whether Donald Trump has immunity from
prosecution and whether future presidents (possibly Trump) can brazenly
commit crimes throughout their terms -- even breaking the law to extend
their terms indefinitely -- without legal consequence. Put another way,
it’ll decide whether a president enjoying the cult-like loyalty of one
chamber of Congress (i.e. no risk of impeachment & removal) can behave
like a dictator.
If that sounds like an exaggeration, this is the case where Trump’s
lawyers argued a president could assassinate their political rivals
without risk of prosecution.
The Supreme Court doesn’t have to rule in Trump’s favor to deeply
undermine our democracy and help him evade accountability. The MAGA
justices on the court have done that with their conduct in this case
already.
* First, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case back when Special
Counsel Jack Smith requested they fast track a decision on immunity
back in December.
* Then they waited weeks after the DC Circuit Court’s decisive Feb. 6
ruling to accept Trump’s appeal.
* To delay things further, they set oral arguments a full month later --
today.
All of this could have been wrapped up months ago. But the MAGA majority
on the court has chosen to delay the process every step of the way in a
nakedly partisan gambit to help Trump delay the Jan 6th/election
subversion trial until after ballots are cast this November.
To top it all off, Clarence Thomas refused to recuse himself from the case
despite his wife’s direct involvement in the insurrection at the center of
all of this.
If there were a petition you could sign or a call you could make to
pressure the Supreme Court to swiftly decide this in accordance with the
law and basic ethics, we’d ask you to do it.
But the blunt truth is this:
There is only one way we’re going to rescue our democracy, tackle the
corruption on the court, and preserve the bedrock democratic principle
that no one is above the law. We have to defeat Trump this November.
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election after election, but resources are tight right now. So if you want
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Polling shows that voters see the election subversion charges as the most
serious Trump faces -- and the vast majority of Americans want to know the
verdict before they cast their votes.
But the MAGA majority on the court threatens to make that impossible if
they continue their stalling tactics and move slowly on ruling in today’s
case.
It’s brazen, Bush v. Gore-level intervention in a presidential contest on
behalf of a candidate -- a candidate who happens to have appointed three
justices deciding this case. And if they get their way and he wins this
November, there’s a good chance he’ll have a chance to appoint three more.
A supermajority of the court appointed by one man, Donald Trump.
We’ve said it all along: We can’t expect the courts to save us. If we want
to stop Trump, we can’t hope the judiciary does its job and cross our
fingers for convictions before the election. It’s up to us -- all of us
reading this email -- to do everything within our power to defeat Trump in
just under 200 days.
If we do that, we’ll have a chance to fix the courts. We’ll have a chance
to ensure Trump faces accountability for his crimes. And if we don’t, the
threat to our democracy is unimaginable.
You’ve seen [ [link removed] ]our plan. We are bypassing the media to target
hard-to-reach voters in person in every swing state. We’re making our
Neighbor2Neighbor tool -- the most effective voter contact tool in
existence -- available in the House and Senate battlegrounds that we need
to win back a Democratic trifecta. With this relational organizing
effort and earned media generated by thousands of Indivisible groups,
we’re going to focus voters on the interrelated issues where we have an
edge: MAGA extremism, the battle to save our democracy, and reproductive
rights.
We know that donations will start picking up as we approach the election,
but really now is the time when your investment matters most as we make
decisions about how big we can scale our efforts.
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