Thursday, July 6th - Write Letters to Ohio Voters / Judiciary Act of 2023
Action You Can Take Today
Action 1: Write Letters to Ohio Voters
Action 2: Pass the Judiciary Act of 2023
Action 1: Write Letters to Ohio Voters
With Vote Forward, we’re writing letters to young, Democratic-leaning women in Ohio to encourage them to vote in the August special election. Ohioans will be voting whether or not to raise the threshold required to pass citizen-led ballot measures from a simple majority to 60%—meaning a future measure could be blocked by a minority, even if it’s supported by a majority of Ohioans.
The possible impacts of this anti-democratic effort to raise the vote threshold for citizen-led constitutional amendments in Ohio—including on issues like abortion access and fair maps—are far-reaching. Read more about why we’ve launched this campaign on our website.
We’ll send these letters on a rolling basis, so as soon as your letters are written, sealed, stamped, and addressed, put them in the mail and download another batch! All letters must be mailed no later than August 1.
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Action 2: Pass the Judiciary Act of 2023
The Supreme Court, which is stacked with MAGA justices hand-picked by Republicans and dark money groups, is completely out of control. This Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act, attacked workers’ rights, chipped away at our ability to protect our environment, struck down countless gun safety laws, and perhaps worst of all, overturned Roe v. Wade and threw our reproductive rights into chaos across the country.
The only way to save our rights is to expand the Supreme Court by passing the Judiciary Act of 2023. Every single issue we care about is at risk with this conservative MAGA majority in power at the Court. That’s why we must act now to unrig our courts before it’s too late.
The Judiciary Act of 2023 provides the most urgent solution to a Supreme Court that has been captured by conservative extremists. This bill would add four additional justices to the bench and undo the decades of conservative court-packing that got us into this mess. The Constitution does not require a set number of Supreme Court justices and the number has fluctuated over the years.
Make no mistake: the conservative justices are extreme. These are justices who have refused to say whether climate change is real, whether systemic racism exists, and who have dedicated their careers to stripping Black and brown people of their right to vote. It’s not just their behavior on the Let’s not forget that one of the justices – Clarence Thomas – has not only accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts from a billionaire MAGA donor, his wife Ginni was apparently in contact with Donald Trump’s closest advisors ahead of the deadly insurrection attempt on January 6. (And please don’t get us started on Brett Kavanaugh.)
Supreme Court expansion is not a power-grab. It is necessary to restore balance to the court after four years of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell’s anti-democratic attempts to take over our judiciary. The Supreme Court is only legitimate as long as we can trust that the justices are fair arbiters of the law and constitution. We must expand the Supreme Court. We’re no longer sure it is.
Call on your elected officials to pass the Judiciary Act of 2023!
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