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"This assault on our democracy demands as robust a resistance as we can possibly mount."
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Sen. Jeff Merkley Stages All-Night Protest On Senate Floor Against Gorsuch Nomination
“This assault on our democracy demands as robust a resistance as we can possibly mount.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-merkley-senate-protest_us_58e466f8e4b03a26a367750d?jp4467aqz61zfflxr&
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) began an all-night protest on the Senate floor late Tuesday, promising to speak “as long as I’m able” in protest of the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“By stealing a Supreme Court seat for the first time in American history, the Senate is undermining the Court and the rule of law, and turning the highest court in the land into a political committee,” Merkley wrote on his official Facebook page. “This assault on our democracy demands as robust a resistance as we can possibly mount.”
Merkley began speaking around 7 p.m. Tuesday, lambasting his Republican colleagues over their refusal to hold a vote on Judge Merrick Garland during the administration of President Barack Obama.
“The majority team in this chamber decided to steal a Supreme Court seat.... The majority said, ‘We intend to pack the court of the United States of America,’” he said. “It was a warfare tactic of partisanship.”
Sen. Jeff Merkley Stages All-Night Protest On Senate Floor Against Gorsuch Nomination
“This assault on our democracy demands as robust a resistance as we can possibly mount.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-merkley-senate-protest_us_58e466f8e4b03a26a367750d?jp4467aqz61zfflxr&
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) began an all-night protest on the Senate floor late Tuesday, promising to speak “as long as I’m able” in protest of the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“By stealing a Supreme Court seat for the first time in American history, the Senate is undermining the Court and the rule of law, and turning the highest court in the land into a political committee,” Merkley wrote on his official Facebook page. “This assault on our democracy demands as robust a resistance as we can possibly mount.”
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Merkley began speaking around 7 p.m. Tuesday, lambasting his Republican colleagues over their refusal to hold a vote on Judge Merrick Garland during the administration of President Barack Obama.
“The majority team in this chamber decided to steal a Supreme Court seat.... The majority said, ‘We intend to pack the court of the United States of America,’” he said. “It was a warfare tactic of partisanship.”
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We cannot let the russian-backed KGOP continue its path of treason & criminality against the United States of America, and American democracy.
