National Abortion Ban
The road to a National Abortion Ban runs through the U.S. Senate.
Protect your freedoms by voting for and supporting these 10 Democratic candidates for the Senate. They are roadblocks to the National Abortion Ban and Republicans stacking the courts with extremist justices who ban IVF, abortion pills and women's freedom to control their own bodies.
Click on this interactive map for details on Jon Tester (Montana), Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), Elissa Slotkin (Michigan), Bob Casey (Pennsylvania), Jacky Rosen (Nevada), Ruben Gallego (Arizona), Colin Allred (Texas), Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (Florida) and Angela Alsobrooks (Maryland).
Republicans stack the courts with extremist judges
"Continue to establish control of America’s judicial system. So long as their judges are in place to make law from the bench, what the majority of Americans want doesn’t matter. Mitch McConnell made judicial confirmations a top priority, churning through nominations even when the coronavirus pandemic shut everything else down. Right-wing plaintiffs are now seeking out those judges, like Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas, to decide in their favor.
Kacsmaryk challenged the FDA’s approval of the drug mifepristone, which can be used in abortions, thus threatening to ban it nationwide." - Heather Cox Richardson
Republicans impose their minority rule through the courts
Controlling the country through the courts was the plan behind stacking the courts with Republican nominees and weaponizing the filibuster to stop Democrats from passing legislation. In March 2024, in Slate, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that McConnell “realized you don’t need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don’t need to change hearts and minds. You don’t need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people.
All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists…[a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called ‘law.’” - Heather Cox Richardson
President Biden appointed minority and women justices
"When he took office, President Joe Biden went to work putting his own mark on the federal judiciary. Almost two thirds of his appointees are women, and 62% are people of color. He appointed the first Black female justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court. But now, Republicans are hoping to retake the Senate to make sure that those appointments will stop, along with any more legislation. Their right-wing appointees to the courts will take the business of lawmaking out of the hands of American majorities." - Heather Cox Richardson
TakeAway: Vote for Kamala Harris and these Democratic candidates for Senate to protect your freedoms.
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Other key Senate races that need to be actively supported:
Democrat Gloria Johnson versus incumbent Republican Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee.
Democrat Lucas Kunce vs incumbent Republican Josh Hawley, Missouri.
Excellent recap on very key races in the upcoming election, thank you