Progressives are growing frustrated over a perceived lack of effort by Senate Democrats to keep President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, from being confirmed, according to The Hill.
"I think there's been broad concern that Democrats haven't been as united and as crystal clear as they need to be," Neil Sroka, a spokesman for Democracy for America, told The Hill. "It's pretty concerning that we haven't gotten . . . unanimity from the caucus."
Kavanaugh is set to meet with three Democratic Senators next week, including Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Joe Donnelly D-Ind., and has already sat down with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
Senate Democrats cannot block Kavanaugh's confirmation on their own with only 49 members, and too many Democrats have 'decided out of the gate that this was an unwinnable fight," Brian Fallon, the executive director of Demand Justice, a leading anti-Kavanaugh group, told The Washington Post last week.
Confirmation hearings before the Judiciary Committee begin the first week in September, with 49 of the 51 Republican senators expressing their full support or likely backing of the judge. Manchin, Donnelly, and Heitkamp are three centrist Democrats who backed Trump's first Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch.
Still, activists want a full-scale attack launched against Kavanaugh's confirmation.
"Senate Democrats need to be doing every single thing that they can to ring the alarm bells," said Heidi Hess, the co-director of Credo Action. "I think that Democrats on the Senate Judiciary [Committee] should be thinking right now about how they are going to push and expose and, if necessary, gum up the works procedurally in order to slow down this down."
Elizabeth Beavers, policy director for the liberal Indivisible Project, told The Hill her group expected Democrats to "come out swinging and to be in opposition . . . and on that front, we've been a little disappointed so far."
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