Senate Democrats
Richard Blumenthal
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Filling an Empty Supreme Court Seat in an Election Year
“Now that the President has done his job, Senate Republicans must do theirs. If they deny Judge Garland meetings, hearings, consideration, and a vote, they will engage in obstructionism unprecedented in American history. We should strive to insulate the Court from partisan politics, not pollute the judiciary with the same partisan gridlock and bickering that infect Congress. The Republican leadership should do the right thing, fully consider Judge Garland’s nomination and spare the Court and the country the significant, unnecessary damage their obstructionism would cause." 1
Ending the Legislative Filibuster
“At the end of the day, these changes deepen the divisions and the slope continues to ending the filibuster. The ‘nuclear option’ used to be nuclear. No longer.” 2
Court Packing
If Republicans recklessly & reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table 3
Compare to 2018: “It was abandoned for good reasons,” said Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal. “But I would look at the history again. I think its chances are slim to none.” 4
Statement from A3P Founder Mike Davis
“For the past fifty years, Democrats have debased themselves in Supreme Court confirmation hearings with childish antics, character assassinations, and straight up defamation. Richard ‘Da Nang Dick’ Blumenthal has taken that to a whole new level with his recent ‘enemy of the court’ amicus brief where he threatened to pack the Supreme Court if they didn’t rule the way he liked in a Second Amendment case. The fact is, Blumenthal’s record of service in the United State Senate is as prestigious as his record of service in Vietnam.”
- Blumenthal has not signed the Article VI Pledge to refrain from a religious test on Amy Coney Barrett.
What else you should know about Richard Blumenthal:
- Blumenthal repeatedly lied about serving in Vietnam. In reality, he received five deferments and actively avoided the war.5 6
- Blumenthal signed an “enemy of the court” amicus brief in which he threatened to pack the Supreme Court if it did not rule the way he wanted in a Second Amendment case.7
- In 2007, Blumenthal was rated the worst state Attorney General in the country - lower than Elliot Spitzer - and he received failing grades in each of four categories: “[U]sing his office to ‘promote personal gain or enrich cronies or relatives’; ‘fabricating the law’ by asking courts to "rewrite statutes or stretch constitutional norms"; bringing lawsuits ‘that usurp regulatory powers granted to the federal government or other state entities’; and ‘seeking to regulate conduct occurring wholly in other states.’"8
- Blumenthal opposed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have protected infants who survive a botched abortion.9