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Lucas, breaking news from The Associated Press: Popular vote loser Donald Trump says he'll announce pick to fill Supreme Court vacancy next week.

Antonin Scalia's seat has sat vacant since February 2016 thanks to Republican intransigence. Democrats must obstruct Trump's disaster nominee with equal resolve.

Call Senator Charles E. Schumer at (202) 224-6542 and Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand at (202) 224-4451. Tell them to oppose and filibuster any Supreme Court nominee.

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During his campaign, the Cheeto-dusted Führer offered two possible choices to fill Antonin Scalia's seat: William Pryor and Diane Sykes. Both candidates are top picks of the right-wing Heritage Foundation.

Here are some of William Pryor's top hits:

Labeled the Roe v. Wade ruling the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law” and “a constitutional right to murder an unborn child.”
Says the federal government “should not be in the business of public education nor the control of street crime.”
He ruled for the restrictive Georgia voter ID law, claiming that “racially disparate effects” are inadequate to prove a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. (The Supreme Court he would sit on has ruled oppositely.)
He has also attacked environmental protection laws, limits on privacy protection, and on the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Diane Sykes, for her part, is even more conservative than Pryor:

She argued for limits on corporate liability for defects in their products, urged overturning of a $1 million award for damages from defects and overturning a $3.5 million judgment for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
She took the outrageous view that a prosecutor should be legally shielded from a claim that he fabricated evidence that put a wrongly convicted man in prison for 17 years.
Sykes wrote the 2-1 Circuit Court majority ruling to invalidate the contraception mandate of Obamacare.
She disagreed with the 10 other judges on 7th Circuit when she voted for the strict Wisconsin voter ID law despite its unfair impact on student voters.
She wrote that an anti-gay student group should be allowed to receive state funding and recognition even though it engaged in banned discrimination. Sykes even claimed the group had not discriminated because it allowed membership of gays who vowed not to be engaged in sex. The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently ruled the other way.

For anyone who cares about civil liberties, civil rights, reproductive rights, environmental protections, progress and basic human decency, these two -- or anyone that comes recommended by the far right -- would be disastrous.

We don't yet know who the nominee will be but whoever Trump nominates will be positioned to shape U.S. policy for decades after his administration is dust in the wind. Democrats need to fight every unqualified nominee that comes before them, with every tool they've got.

Call Senator Charles E. Schumer at (202) 224-6542 and Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand at (202) 224-4451. Tell them we need Democrats to do everything in their power to keep ultra-conservative extremists away from the Supreme Court.

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Hi, I'm (say your name) from (say from where you're calling). Donald Trump has promised to nominate right-wing extremists to the Supreme Court. They would be disastrous for civil liberties, civil rights, reproductive rights, environmental protections and progress. Can I count on you to publicly oppose and filibuster any Trump nominee?