As the cable news networks broadcast wall to wall coverage of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings to a nation barely aware of the consequences of his ascendence to the bench of our country’s highest court, Hillary Clinton took to Twitter to warn the public about what Kavanaugh’s confirmation could mean for the future of America.
The former presidential candidate began her multi-day campaign to fight against the confirmation of President Trump’s nominee on Labor Day with a tweet highlighting how his joining the court could affect worker’s rights.
The Roberts Court has dealt some big blows to workers and unions in the last few years. With Kavanaugh on the Court, a 5-4 hard-right majority would be even more aggressive in siding with corporations over people.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
That ruling won't just hurt seven million public-sector union workers with contracts. It'll hurt all workers, because union deals on wages and working conditions affect what businesses without unions do, too.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
In other words, the Court has already been widening the disparity in power between corporations and workers. Kavanaugh's record from his time as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia shows he'd help further that trend for a generation.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
In 2014, he dissented in a case where the Occupational Safety and Health Administration held SeaWorld accountable for the death of a trainer.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
Unions and labor movements are why we have workplace safety precautions, collective bargaining, weekends, minimum wages, and, yes, Labor Day.
We can't afford more damage to workers' rights. Make sure your senators hear from you: Let's #StopKavanaugh.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
Clinton was back on the social media platform the next day, this time focusing on the effect Kavanaugh’s confirmation could have on America’s healthcare system.
Challenges to the Affordable Care Act's protections for patients, including the notion that insurance companies can't refuse to insure you if you have a pre-existing condition, are already working their way through the lower courts.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 4, 2018
In 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court upheld the consitutionality of the ACA. In 2017, he criticized Chief Justice John Roberts for ruling to uphold the law five years earlier.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 4, 2018
Supreme Court seats are for life. Your senators' votes on Kavanaugh could affect whether you, your loved ones, and millions of other Americans can get affordable health care for decades.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 4, 2018
This is as serious as it gets. It's up to us to save health care for millions of our fellow Americans—again.
As Kavanaugh's hearings begin, make sure your senators hear from you: (202) 224-3121
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 4, 2018
Today the Democratic luminary focused on the dangers Kavanaugh poses for women’s reproductive rights.
A few weeks before Kavanaugh's name appeared on President Trump's short list for a new justice, Kavanaugh praised the dissent in the Roe v. Wade case and called former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist his “hero,” noting that “he clearly wanted to overrule Roe.”
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 5, 2018
Kavanaugh ruled to let CEOs decide to deny their employees insurance coverage for no co-pay birth control.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 5, 2018
It's remarkable that we have to keep repeating this, even in 2018: Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 5, 2018
If you agree, please pick up the phone right now and call your senators. Ask them to #StopKavanaugh: (202) 224-3121
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 5, 2018
Whatever your opinion about the woman who won the popular vote — but lost the presidency — in the last election, an election still clouded by accusations of foreign manipulation, one has to admit that Hillary Clinton’s tireless fight to protect the Supreme Court from the addition of an ideological partisan is both admirable and perhaps the most important political role that Clinton can play at this stage of her career.
