Washington, DC – After resounding Democratic victories in the midterm elections, and following President Trump’s continued attempts to appoint federal judges loyal to him and not the American people, People For President Svante Myrick released the following statement:
“People For the American Way condemns the Republican scheme to ram through judicial confirmations during the lame duck session and urges Democrats to do whatever they can to prevent these confirmations.
While Republican congressional majorities have cheered on Trump’s lawless actions, federal judges have bravely and heroically checked his attacks against our freedom – just as our nation’s founders intended.
But Trump does not share our founders’ vision of the courts. He is a president who misleads and even defies federal judges. He condemns judicial independence. He demands unfettered loyalty from the men and women he puts on the bench.
No such president can be allowed to put more judges on the bench at any level. Donald Trump is dangerously and uniquely unqualified to be making lifetime judicial appointments.
The midterm voters have spoken. They rejected this corrupt president and his enablers in every way, from state and local races to the U.S. House and Senate. Americans said “enough!”
The outgoing Republican majority has no mandate to use its final weeks in power to ram through even more extremist judicial nominees who will put loyalty to the thoroughly rejected MAGA agenda above all else. Democrats must do all they can to stop this power grab.”
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About People For the American Way:
People For the American Way is a national progressive advocacy organization that inspires and mobilizes Americans to defend freedom, justice, and democracy from those who threaten to take them away. For more than four decades, we have been dedicated to making the promise of American ideals real for everyone and have worked toward a vision of a vibrant America where basic rights and freedoms are upheld for all, not just the wealthy and the powerful. Learn more at peoplefor.org.
