1. United States
2. Maine
3. Letter

I write to ask you not to vote for any CR without conditions and assurances. It's time to let the GOP own their fascist immiserating regime. I am fully in support of the Dems' existing plan to make Affordable Care Act subsidy extensions past December 31, 2025 in exchange for avoiding a shutdown. I ALSO want to demand that you add an exception (even temporarily) to the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over cases related to tariffs, taxes, and appropriations. This is a constitutional option. Lower courts are already correctly ruling against the president's illegal tariffs. We can't trust scotus to follow the law, the constitution, or the courts-- as we all have seen. Any "deal" you might make with Republicans will basically be for nothing if SCOTUS retains the ability to overrule lower courts who already decided that the IEEPA tariffs were unlawful and that (illegal) pocket rescissions cannot be Please demand an exemption clause per the United States Constitution: Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 (aka "The Exceptions Clause"):"In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." The exemption clause should be about SCOTUS's jurisdiction over appropriations, tariffs, and taxes. This could be temporary or restricted to just FY26 appropriations and taxation if the institutionalists among the establishment Dems are too squeamish to revoke it forever. Congress was originally in charge of SCOTUS's docket and jurisdiction except in cases of "original jurisdiction" (primarily cases about foreign dignitaries or state vs. state suits). You need to take back the power of Congress. Please do so in every way possible including with the exemptions clause. Please reply