Supreme Court Decision Strengthened Case for President Biden in November
Tamlyn Tomita, Chair of the CAPA21 political action committee, announced that the PAC today renewed its endorsement of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for re-election. CAPA21 joins AAA Fund, which also renewed its support for Biden-Harris.
CAPA21 (https://capa21.com) is a political action committee serving the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities with roots in the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans, founded in 1987 as one of the country’s first Asian American PACs. In addition to Tomita, the CAPA21 board includes Dale Minami, Maeley Tom, and Ginger Lew.
President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the Biden-Harris administration have applied the full force of the federal government to ensure the promise of America for all AA and NHPI communities.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration delivered the most equitable economic recovery on record with nearly 15 million jobs created, including historic AA and NHPI small business growth. The administration is also working to ensure equal access to a high-quality education, expand affordable healthcare for children and families, combat hate, improve disaster recovery, preserve indigenous heritage and lands, and protect civil rights by advancing language access and data equity.
President Biden and Vice President Harris have stood by AANHPI communities. CAPA21 strongly encourages our communities to stand by them.
While the Biden-Harris support for AANHPI communities alone is enough to warrant support for their re-election, the 6-3 decision this week by the Supreme Court on the Trump immunity case made the case for Biden-Harris even more clear.
“[The] decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent. “It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law. … The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”
This is a Trump Supreme Court. The majority in the 6-3 decision included Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, and Justice Barret – all hand-picked by the right-wing Federalist Society and appointed by Trump to advance an extremist agenda in the high court, including overturning Roe v. Wade.
President Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and has put forth the most diverse group of judicial appointees of any President – all committed to principles that are at the core of our democracy: independence, freedom, and liberty.
CAPA21 believes the choice is clear and even more stark as of today. President Biden and Vice President Harris are the only true champions for our AANHPI communities and for the democracy that we must keep intact even as it cracks under the influence of Trump and MAGA forces.
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