In an unprecedented power play, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is jamming five nomination hearings into one Wednesday, bringing up three very controversial nominees and trying to ram them through the committee on the way to the floor. There should be just one response from committee Democrats—shut it down.

The three most controversial Trump nominees are Amy Coney Barrett and Joan Larsen for lifetime seats on federal appeals courts and Eric Dreiband as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. These nominees have long records of opposing reproductive and LGBTQ rights, of taking extreme positions on presidential power, and Dreiband—Trump's nominee to the Civil Rights Division, has spent most of his career attacking civil rights, the protection he would be tasked with enforcing.

For example, Larsen is on record praising "the use of extreme presidential signing statements and the president’s ability to ignore acts of Congress." The case in point? The use of torture in the George W. Bush regime.

Referencing George W. Bush’s signing statement limiting the application of the McCain Amendment outlawing the use of torture against persons in the custody of the United States, Larsen claimed: “Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers… If circumstances arose in which the law would prevent him from protecting the nation, he would choose the nation over the statute.” Noted constitutional scholar Peter Shane has written that Larsen’s “enthusiasm for unchecked executive power should be profoundly worrying,” and added “we cannot afford judges who would grant President Trump extreme leeway to decide what statutes he may ignore.”