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The Trump administration has spent the entirety of this term attacking our system of checks and balances – trying to erode any structures that would keep them from carrying out their attacks on our civil rights and liberties. Now, they've taken aim at the judiciary.

Fair and impartial courts play a critical role in upholding our freedoms and reining in overreach from any branch of government. One major tool judges use to do this is injunctive relief – which blocks executive orders and federal policies nationwide that appear unlawful while a legal challenge proceeds. Acting well within the scope of their constitutional authority and laws enacted by Congress, federal judges have granted injunctive relief to temporarily block the Trump administration from illegally deporting countless immigrants under a wartime law, protect medical care for trans youth, and more. But extreme lawmakers just passed a bill in the House that would undermine judges' ability to serve in their constitutional role as a check on lawless exercises of executive power: H.R. 1526.

H.R. 1526 poses a danger to us all – and removes a check on the executive, threatening every right we hold dear. Tell your Senators: Vote no on limiting courts’ ability to check presidential abuses of power.

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As your constituent, I’m writing to urge you to vote no on limiting courts’ ability to check presidential abuses of power. Bills like H.R. 1526 – which just passed in the House – pose a direct and immediate danger to all of us and threaten the very checks and balances that our rights depend on.

The bill would undermine the courts’ constitutionally protected power to serve as a check on unlawful executive power. This attack on our judiciary opens the door to untold civil rights abuses from the executive branch.

This bill would be a disaster for our rights and for our democracy. No president should be above the law. Please, vote no on limiting courts’ ability to check presidential abuses of power.

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