Official Letter: We call on Senator Feinstein to step down from Judiciary Committee Leadership
To: Senator Feinstein
From: Indivisible SF
Date: October 23, 2020
We call on you to step down from your Judiciary Committee leadership role.
While we support your participation in the October 21st Democratic boycott of the Judiciary Committee's illegitimate vote on the Barrett nomination to the Supreme Court and your commitment to vote against her confirmation, we are deeply disappointed by your persistent failure to do anything to delay, obstruct, or procedurally oppose a fundamentally flawed committee process. We condemn your public statements praising the committee process and your embrace of Chairman Lindsey Graham. By doing so, you validated an illegitimate, morally-repugnant, and politically-obscene, packing of the Court with ideologically-driven Republican partisans.
For five years, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and the Republican Party have ruthlessly violated Senate rules and norms to politicize the judiciary into a partisan arm that will deny healthcare to millions of Americans, block the environment and safety regulations we need to combat global climate catastrophe, overturn Roe v Wade and a woman's right to control her own body, cripple labor unions, and more.
Republicans aim to use the court to transform government of the people, by the people, and for the people into an authoritarian rule Of the CEOs, by the lobbyists, for the wealthy. Your actions legitimize a power grab that allows them to do so against the wishes of a majority of Americans and your own constituents.
Your actions do not represent your constituents at Indivisible San Francisco, and we call on you to step down from your leadership role in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
We are joining NARAL, MoveOn, Demand Justice, Demand Progress, and other groups, including other Indivisible chapters, in this call.
Now that the committee has violated its own rules to send the Barrett nomination to the full Senate for confirmation, the last opportunity for you to use procedural maneuvers to delay her confirmation is on the Senate floor. We want you to use parliamentary tools to delay and obstruct the process just as Republicans did over and over again during the Obama administration.
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Signed by over 100 individuals and the following Indivisible chapter and organizations:
Indivisible CA 33
Indivisible CA43
Indivisible California Green Team
Indivisible Northridge
Indivisible San Francisco
Indivisible Santa Cruz
Indivisible Ventura
Indivisible Yolo
Redstone Labor Temple Association
Rooted in Resistance (Indivisible)
Tree of Life Health Advocates