Tweet - "FACT CHECK: Republicans claim Judge Barrett will be a neutral umpire & Democrats want courts to be "super-legislatures" with unelected judges making laws. In fact, right-wing judicial activists have repeatedly used originalism & textualism to overturn duly-enacted laws."
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"FACT CHECK: Republicans claim Judge Barrett will be a neutral umpire & Democrats want courts to be "super-legislatures" with unelected judges making laws. In fact, right-wing judicial activists have repeatedly used originalism & textualism to overturn duly-enacted laws."
"In Citizens United, conservatives struck down a campaign finance law to unleash a flood of dark money. In Shelby County, conservatives gutted the Voting Rights Act, unleashing a wave of voter suppression. Now another originalist-textualist has been nominated to undo the ACA."
@SenatorDurbin
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