| Pamela, Today the Supreme Court is hearing Trump v. United States. Despite the iconic name (a good campaign slogan, no?), it's a farce of a case that reveals how broken the MAGA-stacked Supreme Court has become. At stake is the question of whether Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution and whether future presidents (possibly Trump) can brazenly commit crimes throughout their terms -- even breaking the law to extend their terms indefinitely -- without legal consequence. Put another way, it'll decide whether a president enjoying the cult-like loyalty of one chamber of Congress (i.e. no risk of impeachment & removal) can behave like a dictator. If that sounds like an exaggeration, this is the case where Trump's lawyers argued a president could assassinate their political rivals without risk of prosecution. The Supreme Court doesn't have to rule in Trump's favor to deeply undermine our democracy and help him evade accountability. The MAGA justices on the court have done that with their conduct in this case already. - First, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case back when Special Counsel Jack Smith requested they fast track a decision on immunity back in December.
- Then they waited weeks after the DC Circuit Court's decisive Feb. 6 ruling to accept Trump's appeal.
- To delay things further, they set oral arguments a full month later -- today.
All of this could have been wrapped up months ago. But the MAGA majority on the court has chosen to delay the process every step of the way in a nakedly partisan gambit to help Trump delay the Jan 6th/election subversion trial until after ballots are cast this November. To top it all off, Clarence Thomas refused to recuse himself from the case despite his wife's direct involvement in the insurrection at the center of all of this. If there were a petition you could sign or a call you could make to pressure the Supreme Court to swiftly decide this in accordance with the law and basic ethics, we'd ask you to do it. But the blunt truth is this: There is only one way we're going to rescue our democracy, tackle the corruption on the court, and preserve the bedrock democratic principle that no one is above the law. We have to defeat Trump this November. We've got a plan to do it, we have a track record of defeating MAGA in election after election, but resources are tight right now. So if you want to take action today to defend democracy, please consider chipping in to support Indivisible >> If you've saved your information with ActBlue Express Lane, your donation to Indivisible Action will go through immediately: Donate $7 >> Donate $25 >> Donate $50 >> Donate $75 >> Other Amount >> Contribute Monthly >> Polling shows that voters see the election subversion charges as the most serious Trump faces -- and the vast majority of Americans want to know the verdict before they cast their votes. But the MAGA majority on the court threatens to make that impossible if they continue their stalling tactics and move slowly on ruling in today's case. It's brazen, Bush v. Gore-level intervention in a presidential contest on behalf of a candidate -- a candidate who happens to have appointed three justices deciding this case. And if they get their way and he wins this November, there's a good chance he'll have a chance to appoint three more. A supermajority of the court appointed by one man, Donald Trump. We've said it all along: We can't expect the courts to save us. If we want to stop Trump, we can't hope the judiciary does its job and cross our fingers for convictions before the election. It's up to us -- all of us reading this email -- to do everything within our power to defeat Trump in just under 200 days. If we do that, we'll have a chance to fix the courts. We'll have a chance to ensure Trump faces accountability for his crimes. And if we don't, the threat to our democracy is unimaginable. You've seen our plan. We are bypassing the media to target hard-to-reach voters in person in every swing state. We're making our Neighbor2Neighbor tool -- the most effective voter contact tool in existence -- available in the House and Senate battlegrounds that we need to win back a Democratic trifecta. With this relational organizing effort and earned media generated by thousands of Indivisible groups, we're going to focus voters on the interrelated issues where we have an edge: MAGA extremism, the battle to save our democracy, and reproductive rights. We know that donations will start picking up as we approach the election, but really now is the time when your investment matters most as we make decisions about how big we can scale our efforts. Please chip in what you can to help defeat Trump and save our democracy. If you've saved your information with ActBlue Express Lane, your donation to Indivisible Action will go through immediately: Donate $7 >> Donate $25 >> Donate $50 >> Donate $75 >> Other Amount >> Contribute Monthly >> In solidarity,
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