EMILYs List Statement on Senate Judiciary Hearings

For Immediate Release
October 12, 2020

EMILYs List Statement on Senate Judiciary Hearings

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as the Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, released the following statement: 

“Today, the Senate continues President Trump's unpopular and undemocratic rush to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat with someone who represents a threat to health care, reproductive freedom, and many of our crucial rights. Since Amy Coney Barrett's nomination, we have learned that she failed to disclose information about her opposition to Roe v. Wade and that a majority of voters believe the next president should make the nomination instead. This race to a lifetime seat on the country's highest court is wrong, and voters will remember on Election Day.”

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $600 million to elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect 150 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and nearly 1,100 women to state and local office. Nearly 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. During the historic 2017-2018 cycle, EMILYs List raised a record-breaking $110 million and launched a record independent expenditure campaign. We helped elect 34 new women to the House, including 24 red-to-blue victories; enough seats to have delivered the U.S. House majority alone. Since the 2016 election, more than 55,000 women have reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices.