Hearings in the U.S. Senate on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court are scheduled to begin tomorrow, and Hillary Clinton used Labor Day as an opportunity to sound every alarm she could find:
Happy Labor Day. There's no better time to talk about why workers’ rights would suffer if Brett Kavanaugh, whose hearings for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court start tomorrow, is confirmed.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
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
The Court's ruling in Janus v. AFSCME earlier this summer overturned a 40-year-old precedent to hold that public-sector workers with union contracts don't have to pay fees for collective bargaining expenses if they're not members.
— 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
The Court has also recently granted corporations the right to deny workers reproductive health care and made it harder for workers to sue businesses by allowing companies to force employees to sign mandatory arbitration clauses with their contracts.
— 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 2007, Kavanaugh wrote an opinion that severely limited union rights and allowed major damage to federal workers' ability to bargain collectively.
— 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
In 2016, Kavanaugh held that corporations have the right to punish workers for displaying pro-union signs in their cars.
— 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
That’s nice and all, Ms. Clinton, but remember what Barack Obama said?
Elections have consequences
— Hardhat ⭐⭐⭐ (@Hardhat_Patriot) September 3, 2018
They do indeed:
Elections have consequences- This is our President’s appointment
— Terra Wales (@Terrawales) September 3, 2018
You lost the election. Therefore you don’t get to decide who the pick is and whether or not he should be confirmed or not. As we all know by now, elections have consequences.
— Jason King (@Jinnobi33) September 3, 2018
Your part of the effort in futility to stop Kavanaugh. Elections have consequences as Barack Obama once said to John McCain!
— pine haven (@BillWhalen31) September 3, 2018
Obama reportedly made the “elections have consequences” remark to then-Congressman Eric Cantor in January of 2009, but recently it’s also come back to bite Democrats.
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