Call to Action: August 30, 2018

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If confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh will continue the Supreme Court’s predisposition to favor corporate interests. Kavanaugh’s record of hostility towards federal regulations that protect individuals and the environment is well-established. He has invalidated EPA protections against mercury, toxic emissions, air pollution that crosses state lines, and the greenhouse gases linked to global climate change. According to the Sierra Club’s president, Kavanaugh is “an extreme ideologue who has time and again proven himself hostile to common-sense environmental safeguards.”

We are now seeing some effects of world-wide climate change. The last four summers have been the hottest on record. The amount of land lost to forest fires each year in the Pacific Northwest has increased by nearly 5000 percent since the early 1970s. We simply cannot have another Justice who places business interests over both the environment and the protection of individuals’ well-being by eviscerating environmental protections.

More broadly, Kavanaugh has questioned reviewing courts’ deference to regulatory agencies’ interpretation of the regulations they administer. If that principle, the well-settled “Chevron Doctrine,” is overturned, many more protective regulations will be invalidated.

We rely on the Supreme Court to be the final arbiter of justice!

Stop Judicial Extremist Kavanaugh!

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