Passivity is never a solution: Urge your Senator TODAY to vote NO on Alito
[I'm moving this older post to the top of the blog today because the vote is next week. Scroll down -- newer posts are below this one.]
call your elected officials, your Senators and ask them point blank about Friday's Times editorial, the one which claims Alito will vote to overturn Roe, and then ask them if they are going to do anything to stop him.And it isn't just about Roe. Here's the text of a letter I sent to my Senator:
Please vote NO on Judge Alito's nomination.It was Edmund Burke who said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." You can shrug and say Alito is not evil, you can walk away and say the court still has a majority in favor of Roe. But you cannot walk away and do nothing because one day your daughter or granddaughter will ask you what it was like to live in a free country.I believe that if Judge Alito is confirmed, he will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade when the opportunity comes. Nothing in his career has shown me otherwise. There is, instead, plenty in his career to that says he believes that there is no right to abortion. Furthermore, during the hearings, he refused to state that Roe is "settled law," despite many opportunities to do so.
But I'm also concerned about his views on Presidential power. At a time when this President is gathering more power to his office than I believe the Framers envisioned, Judge Alito stands ready to enable the President to gather even more. His stance on "signing statements" is ominous and it would be a mistake to allow him to ascend to the court and rule on this issue when (not if) it reaches the court for review.Please vote no on Judge Alito.
And you won't know what to tell her.
Call your Senator. Write your Senator. Fax your Senator. Email your Senator. Tell them TODAY to vote NO on Alito.
Senate phone numbers and addresses
Please do it now before it's too late to make any difference:
- Click the link.
- Look up your Senator.
- Get the phone number.
- Call their office and urge them TODAY to vote NO on Alito.
Just please DO IT NOW.
Thanks.
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I believe that if Judge Alito is confirmed, he will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade when the opportunity comes. Nothing in his career has shown me otherwise.
Yes, I can see how you say that. He reviewed 4 abortion cases and 3 he voted in favor of abortion. Man, that guy just hates abortion.
Roe is safe. Even if Alito would vote to overturn, and that is a big if, pro-Roe judges still number at least 5. We don't know Robert's stand so it could be more.
Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 16, 2006 09:47 AM
Rosemary:
You're hoping for the best.
Bless your pro-choice heart, so am I.
But I'm also preparing for the worst.
P.S. What's your sunny outlook on Bush's trampling of the Fourth Amendment, as well as Section II, Article 2 of the Constitution AND his admitted violation of the FISA statute? You know that Alito AND Roberts (as well as Thomas) are in the bag when (not if) that comes up to the SCOTUS.
How close do you want to cut it?
Posted by: Ara Rubyan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 16, 2006 10:02 AM
"But I'm also preparing for the worst."
Here's the rub, Ara. And this is what prevents any meeting of the minds in your valiant attempt to enlighten:
You understand their leaders better than they do. In fact, I don’t think they have a clue.
”Ultimately, it won't make much difference to me, a white man who's led a fairly privileged life, to have Samuel A. Alito Jr. confirmed to the Supreme Court, other than that the American ideal of "liberty and justice for all" may survive only as an empty slogan.
The 'conservative' revolution conserves nothing; rather, it exploits, unrepentantly, and is anything but compassionate. Judge Alito is integral in the unfolding of this effective rebuke of 'government of the people, by the people and for the people.'
Our bearing witness to the orchestrated degeneration of this great country toward the tyranny we as a nation have overcome time and again -- via the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all of the progressive, humanitarian steps since -- demands far greater resistance than that now evidenced through the public's apathy, dissatisfied yet defeatist remarks from some 'liberal' senators and the dispassionate acquiescence of the media.”
CHRISTOPHER DROZD
Beverly Hills, Calif.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/15/AR2006011500689_2.html
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January 16, 2006 10:44 AM