Note from Tom: RBG

[Tom Malinowski for Congress]( {NAME}​​​​, Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that “women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” No American did more than she to bring us closer to that ideal. Her memory will be a blessing. Her legacy depends on us. Our country faces two big questions right now. The first one is: How do we want to live the rest of our lives? Do we want to go back to a time when the government could tell women what to do with their bodies? Do we want dark money and partisan gerrymandering to decide our elections? Do we want the millions of Americans who got access to health care in recent years to lose it again? The Affordable Care Act will be before the Supreme Court a week after the election. If the Justices split four to four, the current lower court ruling striking it down will stand. The only hope for protecting people with pre-existing conditions will be to elect a Democratic Congress. Any judge appointed by President Trump to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat will almost certainly vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade. So a woman’s right to choose will also depend entirely on the Congress we elect in November. The second question is: will America still have a legitimate third branch of government? Mitch McConnell didn’t wait more than two hours after Justice Ginsburg’s passing to declare he will violate his own precedent and try to ram through whoever Trump nominates in the final days of the president’s first term. McConnell’s message is “heads I win, tails you lose.” I think the vast majority of Americans will understand this is wrong. Whatever one thinks of McConnell’s decision to deny Judge Garland a vote in the last year of President Obama’s term, any fair-minded person will agree that both sides must play by the same rules. Our whole system of government depends on Americans accepting decisions by the Supreme Court as binding, even when we disagree with them. If McConnell changes the ideological balance of the Supreme Court through a tactic that tens of millions of Americans will see as a naked abuse of power, the Court will lose its legitimacy and our system will collapse. If at least four Republican Senators refuse to go along with this travesty, it won’t happen. If it does, we will vote in even more massive numbers in November to elect a Democratic House and Senate. That new Congress will make health care a human right. It will protect a woman’s right to choose. It will root out corruption from our politics. And it will right the wrong that McConnell and Trump are plotting. I’ve never supported proposals to expand the Supreme Court in the past, but if that becomes the only way to restore public confidence in the judicial branch, then it will have to be done. We should also mandate that every president’s Supreme Court nominees get a timely hearing and an up or down vote in the Senate, politics be damned. We can be measured and cautious in changing longstanding practices and traditions. But we’re not going to be chumps, either. We are going to fight to protect this constitutional republic. And we are going to win. Thank you, Tom Malinowski [Donate]( Tom Malinowski for Congress P.O. Box 263 Somerville, NJ 08876 United States [Click here to unsubscribe from Tom's email list.]( Paid for by Tom Malinowski for Congress