Tuesday, June 11 - Tuesday Night Postcard Parties / Hold the Supreme Court Accountable
Actions You Can Take
Action 1: TONIGHT - Tuesday night postcard party in Lincoln Square
Action 2: Call on Senator Durbin to hold public hearings or conduct an inquiry on SCOTUS ethics
Senator Durbin | DC: 202-224-2152 | Chicago 312-353-4952 | Email Sen. Durbin or call another office
Action 1: Tuesday Night Postcard Party TONIGHT
Come enjoy the camaraderie of writing postcards to voters in swing states with fellow Indivisible Chicago activists.
We're back at the Gideon Welles pub in Lincoln Square every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:00pm, writing postcards to get our voters to the polls in November.
If you can sign up in advance, it helps us let our GW hosts know how many people to expect, but last-minute walk-ins are always welcome.
Feel free to bring your own postcards if you've already ordered them from Postcards to Swing States, or just show up and we'll provide you with postcards, scripts, address lists, and pens.
Donations are welcome, either monetary or in the form of postcard stamps. We look forward to seeing you there!
Other ways to obtain postcards
If you’d like to write postcards on your own or host your own gatherings, go to www.turnoutpac.org/postcards, click on “Sign up for postcards,” complete your order and you’ll be mailed your free postcards along with messages to write and voter lists. (Note: If you enter “Indivisible Chicago” to the optional question on the form, “Are you ordering for a grassroots group?”, we can also let you know when postcard parties are scheduled nearby. Postcards will be provided at the parties or you can bring the postcards you’ve ordered.)
Indivisible Evanston is also distributing postcards for the Postcards to Swing State Campaigns. There are two pickup locations in Evanston, one in Deerfield and one in Buffalo Grove. Sign up here.
Postcard writers are responsible for providing the postcard stamps (currently 53 cents), handwriting a short message and addressing the cards. The instructions include a specific mailing date in October, so you have until then to write the postcards.
Action 2: Tell Durbin to Investigate SCOTUS Ethics
Dick Durbin is one of the most powerful leaders in the U.S. Senate. He's Majority Whip, he's Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he's our Illinois senator. In the face of the emergency situation in the Supreme Court, we, as constituents of Senator Durbin, have a duty to urge him to act now.
Justice Samuel Alito displayed insurrectionist flags at his home and his summer home, and he lied and covered up key aspects of one of the incidents. In spite of a blatant conflict of interest, Alito refuses to recuse himself from two Jan. 6-related cases. And Chief Justice John Roberts has refused to meet with Senator Durbin.
This is an emergency that threatens democracy in the United States. Senator Durbin had called on Justice Alito to recuse, but after Alito declined, Mr. Durbin has fallen back on re-stating the need for the Senate to pass the SCERT Act (pronounced "skirt"), the Supreme Court ethics bill he has co-sponsored (see tweets here and here).
We appreciate Dick Durbin's advocacy for SCERT, but it will do nothing for the crisis before us now. We must call on Senator Durbin to issue subpoenas to Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts and to hold public hearings NOW.
Call Senator Durbin at his Chicago district office or another district office, if you can’t get through there:
Chicago: 312-.353-4952
Springfield: 217-492-4062
Carbondale: 618-351-1122
Rock Island: 309-786-5173
Suggested script: Hello, my name is __________ and I'm a constituent in zip code ______. I thank Senator Durbin for sponsoring the SCERT ["skirt"] Act. But SCERT will not help us NOW as we face the immediate crisis in the Supreme Court. We need Senator Durbin to use his power as Senate Judiciary Chair to subpoena Sam Alito and John Roberts and to hold public hearings. Our democracy hangs in the balance. We need Senator Durbin to use all his power to act now!