A coalition of progressive groups and labor unions is launching a $10 million advertising campaign warning of "the MAGA Supreme Court" in some key swing states.
The United for Democracy coalition hopes to persuade voters and activate the Democratic base by reminding them of Donald Trump's role in assembling the court that overturned abortion rights after polls showed many blamed president Joe Biden for the decision because it came during his administration, reported Rolling Stone.
“This Supreme Court is a Trump/MAGA Court; A vote for Trump/MAGA is a vote for the Roberts/MAGA Supreme Court," said Stasha Rhodes, campaign director for United for Democracy. "Then we need to layer in what they can do to check those bad actors: showing voters that they have an opportunity this November to register their objection against the MAGA politicians responsible for this Court at the ballot box.”
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The ads will warn that right-wing justices were “rewriting the laws and rules to help their billionaire backers get richer and more powerful" and urge voters to “tell Congress to fix the court.”
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“There’s a desire to help the general public understand how the courts are working to further undermine our rights, freedom, baseline democracy — from allowing Big Oil to further pollute the water we drink, to stripping us of protections at work, to interfering in our most personal health care decisions," said Patrick Gaspard, president of the Center for American Progress. "The court already exercises enormous, outsized power in our lives, and some of these decisions would extend that authority in ways that I think distorts the public’s understanding and expectations of the courts.”
Justice Clarence Thomas has been criticized for accepting undisclosed luxury gifts from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow, while justice Samuel Alito failed to report at least one free private jet flight provided by another billionaire donor.
"There are massive questions of conflict of interest with this court," Gaspard said. “Being able to do the work of public education, building civic awareness around these cases, we hope will accrue to the benefit of the public in ways that will create some real scaffolding around questions of accountability.”
