200,000 Americans are dead from Covid19. Many more will die in the next three weeks because of misguided information from the White House. Would you let that man babysit your children?
John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas, says that Republicans have plenty of time to confirm a new Supreme Court Justice because they have the entire lame duck session (assuming there is one) from 11/4 until mid-January. We have seen multiple state houses use that tactic to rush through state laws before the governorship changes hands so I have no doubt that he is accurate in his statement. That doesn't mean that we have to put up with that nonsense. If you care about the will of the people, you should care about preventing this travesty of governance. If you live in Texas, you can certainly make your feelings known to Cornyn directly, since senators tend not to even read complaints from those who are not constituents.
But all of us have the power of our voices. All of us can contact our state's congressional members, either Senate or Congress or both. It would be best to do this right now rather than waiting so that these men (and the Senate is primarily men) know that they do not know what's best, they aren't autonomous but are subject to voters, that a rushed confirmation will forever tarnish not just the justice so confirmed but the entire faith and respect that anyone still has for the government.
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