The Radical Left Quotes on Brett Kavanaugh – Bringing America Together
“In selecting Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court,
President Trump has put reproductive rights and freedoms and health care
protections for millions of Americans on the judicial chopping block. ... I
will oppose Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination with everything I have, and I hope a
bipartisan majority will do the same.” — Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer, D-N.Y.
“He would tip the balance of the Supreme Court even more
against workers’ rights, civil rights, and women’s rights for decades to come.”
— Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a potential 2020 presidential
contender.
“President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
will be a rubber-stamp for an extreme, right-wing agenda pushed by corporations
and billionaires.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
“With a subservient Republican Congress and a far-right
Supreme Court, there is a real risk that the worst impulses of the Trump
presidency will go unchecked.” — No. 2 Senate Democratic leader Richard
Durbin of Illinois.
“This is a nominee who wants to pave the path to tyranny.” —
Sen. Jeff
Merkley, D-Ore.
"If Kavanaugh is confirmed, we could see progress
rolled back on many issues including the right of women to make their own
medical decisions, voting rights, rights of workers to organize for better
wages and working conditions, the principle of equal justice under the law
& more." — Sen. Corey Booker, D-N.J
"If confirmed, American citizens will hemorrhage basic
rights, and corporations will have an open door for a hostile takeover."— Tom
Steyer, billionaire Democratic financier.
"A woman's right to choose is on the line, LGBTQ rights
could be rolled back, affordable health care could be brought down, fair
housing, consumer protections and environmental protections could all be
decimated."— JB Pritzker, Democratic candidate for Illinois governor.
“This nomination as a destructive tool on a generation of
progress for workers, women, LGBTQ people, communities of color & families,
and to radically reverse the course of American justice and democracy."—
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
"OK Ladies and Gentlemen who care for and respect
ladies, it is official. The move back to Medieval Values, Shariah Law even,
where old, bitter men get to tell women what is best for their bodies, lives,
and well being is as done a deal as this is Twitter. Unless we say NO! NO!"
— Ron
Perlman
"Brett Kavanaugh is a true Second Amendment radical. He
believes assault weapon bans are unconstitutional, a position way out of the
judicial mainstream, far to the right of even late Justice Scalia."— Sen. Chris Murphy
"With a Justice Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, we
could see reversals of hard-won gains securing equal opportunity in education,
employment and housing. We could see further exclusion of communities of color
from participation in our democracy. We could see racism continue to flourish
within the criminal justice system. We could see the elimination of effective
tools for proving discrimination."— NAACP statement.
"In selecting Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme
Court, Donald Trump has put reproductive rights and freedoms and health care
protections for millions of Americans on the judicial chopping block."—
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
"The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh will threaten
the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come and will morph our
Supreme Court into a political arm of the right-wing Republican Party."—
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
"If Brett Kavanaugh survives the confirmation process,
he will rapidly advance a fringe right agenda on the court that will accelerate
plutocratic control of our economy and politics, actively undermine the steps
our country must take towards greater racial equity, and directly lead to the
deaths of countless women with the dismantling of abortion rights."— Jim
Dean, chairman of Democracy for America.
"If Trump gets what he wants here what's the court
gonna look like the next 30 years? We're looking at a destruction of the
Constitution of the United States." Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.