The LGBTQ community needs Biden to pack the Supreme Court if he takes office

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With the news that Donald Trump plans to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the United States Supreme Court, the stakes for the LGBTQ community couldn’t be higher.

Not only is Judge Barrett an acolyte of the late notoriously anti-gay Justice Antonin Scalia, but she is a well-known right wing religious extremist in her own right. During her confirmation hearing to be a circuit court judge in 2017, Senator Dianne Feinstein said to Barrett, based on her record, that “the dogma lives loudly within you.”

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On all of the important issues, from women’s rights to Obamacare to LGBTQ rights, Barrett would be an absolute disaster for our country.

Based on the current numbers in the Senate, it appears that Barrett is likely to be confirmed. It is for this reason that Joe Biden, if he is elected President in a little more than 6 weeks’ time, must take drastic, historic action.

The fact is, based on Mitch McConnell’s own reasoning during the Merrick Garland debacle, that this is an illegitimate nomination. In that case, there was almost a year left in President Obama’s term – yet they did not allow him to fill the vacancy.

This time, the vacancy became available 46 days before the election. There is no rational basis to say that this is anything but a hypocritical power grab by the GOP.

The only way to rectify this assault on our institutions is for President Biden to add additional Justices…

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