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Memo to Democratic senators: If you like your job, filibuster Gorsuch

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Progressives lay the cards on the table to Congressional DEMs; stop Gorsuch by any means if you like your job – PB/TK

Memo to Democratic senators: If you like your job, filibuster Gorsuch – Ian Millhiser March 31 2017

Let’s briefly take stock of what happens — quite possibly before the next election — if Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, is confirmed by the Senate.

All four of the Supreme Court’s Republicans voted to reinstate North Carolina’s omnibus voter suppression law before the 2016 election — most likely the most aggressive law of its kind since Jim Crow. If Gorsuch is confirmed, he is highly likely to add a fifth vote to uphold such laws.

Next term, the Supreme Court is poised to hear the most promising challenge to partisan gerrymandering in more than a decade. Gorsuch is overwhelmingly likely to vote to allow such gerrymandering to continue.

Continue to thinkprogress.org article: https://thinkprogress.org/democrat-filibuster-neil-gorsuch-595bf188b9ea

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