Re: April 6 news story.
I am gravely concerned by the Senate’s action to support the rule change known as the “nuclear option.” The 60-vote threshold for confirming a Supreme Court justice was an important provision to ensure the selection of a consensus candidate who could win support from both sides of the aisle. By lowering the vote threshold to a bare majority to confirm a right-wing, anti-woman, anti-labor Supreme Court Justice to the seat stolen from Obama nominee Merrick Garland, Senate Republicans have opened the door for unprecedented partisanship in the Supreme Court justice selection process.
What model are we setting for our children? Are we to become a nation that refrains from reaching out in compromise to our neighbors of different political beliefs? A nation crippled by enmity and infighting? I ask all legislators, officials, voters and other members of our community to take a pause to think about where this is headed. We are accelerating down a slippery slope, and yet we all have the power to stop this decline.
This spring, as the mountainsides burst into verdant bloom, let us find in this renewal a renewed hope in the process of governing.
Marion Sills,Denver
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