BREAKING: Ahead of the Senate’s anticipated vote on the nomination of Judge #AmyConeyBarrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, sexual assault survivors @ItsMichelleHurd, @AshleyJudd, @PadmaLakshmi, and @MiraSorvino issued the following statement:

“Our stories are different, but our experience as survivors of sexual violence united us in saying ‘ #metoo ’ three years ago. Today, it unites us again in urging the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Our society now demands we hold people who abuse their power accountable for sexual harassment and assault, no matter how important those people are.

"Yet multiple times, Judge Barrett ruled against survivors of rape, instead siding with powerful abusers and the powerful institutions that enable them.

“We know painfully well that the systems for survivors to pursue justice are broken. They cannot be repaired and must be rebuilt. But Judge Barrett’s record shows she’d reshape the law to make it even harder for survivors to be heard and for justice to be achieved.

"This disqualifies her from serving on our nation’s highest court.”

Read the full statement https://times.upnow.us/31Di6OV