In Response to Reports that President Trump Will Nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court the Brady Campaign Calls on the U.S. Senate to Reject the Nomination

Washington, D.C., September 25, 2020 - Today, in response to news reports that President Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the Brady Campaign called on the United States Senate to reject the nomination.

Brady Campaign President Kris Brown explained:

“The U.S. Senate must reject Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

For our movement, an even more conservative Supreme Court is a threat to gun safety laws across the country. Such a Court could expand the interpretation of the Second Amendment and threaten decades of hard won progress at the local, state and federal level. The NRA spent $54 million on the 2016 election, including more than $30 million to elect President Trump. His Supreme Court nominees have not disappointed his gun lobby patrons. There is every reason to fear that Judge Barrett would advance the extreme and unfounded views of the gun lobby on the Supreme Court, threatening needed, common-sense and hard-won gun safety laws across the country. We urge you to call your Senator and tell them they must follow the McConnell Rule or reject this nominee.

In 2016 Senator McConnell said that the Senate should “give the people a voice in the filling of this vacancy.” While we should not expect the famously feckless Senate Majority Leader to stick to this principle, Brady urges all members of the United States Senate to do so. Just as our nation’s gun laws are at stake in this fight, so too is the worth of their words and their principles.”