text: Our representative democratic republic needs a strong, independent judiciary to check the power of the legislative and executive branches. This is especially important when those two branches are in the control of a single political party.
  
  What will be more damaging to our country will be when the GOP successfully completes its theft of a Supreme Court seat. With all three branches under GOP control, we will be stuck with a government in service  of billionaires that tries to install Evangelical Christianity as the law of the land.