From Stephen Richards on the Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
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Amy Coney Barrett:
 
Points:
 
1. Progressives should stop relying on the courts to achieve any poliical objective and to avoid politically risky votes. To that end, progressives should:
 
(a) Introduce an federal measure to protect abortion rights, including federal standards for rights per trimester, scope of the government’s right to paid abortions, parental notification, and etc. The details of this legislation can be worked out, but there is no need to leave these kinds of decisions to the states or to the courts.
 
(b) Introduce a general federal measure setting forth Congresses’ view of the appropriate scope of the Commerce clause power
 
(c) Abolish the federal death penalty and withdraw federal funding from local court systems which maintain the death penalty
 
(d) Pass a new voting rights bill
 
(e) Pass an anti-lynching bill
 
(f) Pass a police reform bill, withdrawing funding from states which authorize no-knock warrants and making other changes

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