Urge Senators to uphold the filibuster of Alito
[I've bumped this to the top today because there is still a chance that your action can influence the filibuster and cloture vote today, Monday. Scroll down below this for newer posts. Thanks.]
People For The American Way has launched a fax drive to urge key Senators to support the filibuster of Alito's confirmation.
Visit this site and send a fax.
Here's the text of the fax I sent just now to these Senators:
Please sustain the filibuster and vote NO on cloture.It's not enough to vote NO on his confirmation. Bush and Alito must be stopped. PERIOD. There's too much at stake to leave it to calculations of political wins and losses.I'm concerned about Judge Alito's 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 sustain the filibuster and vote no on cloture.
I understand that the filibuster is not a tool to be used trivially. Judge Alito is not a trivial threat. As a member of the Legislative branch, you have a the authority and the repsonsibility to exercise your Constitutional power for checks and balances.
I ask you to vote no on cloture of the filibuster of Samuel Alito’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
Sincerely,
Ara Rubyan
Alito must be kept off the court.
Fax these Senators today -- don't wait until it is too late.
Abraham Lincoln:
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.UPDATE:
Visit this web page and send a free fax using the numbers below. You can even send the fax via your email software. It's fast and free -- do it today before it's too late to make a difference.
Democratic Senators
Fax Numbers:
AR: Lincoln(D) (202) 228-1371
AR: Pryor(D) (202) 228-0908
CA: Boxer(D) (202) 226-6701
CA: Feinstein(D) (202) 228-3954
CO: Salazar(D) (202) 228-5036
CT: Dodd(D) (202) 224-1083
CT: Lieberman(D) (202) 224-9750
DE: Biden(D) (202) 224-0139
DE: Carper(D) (202) 228-2190
FL: Nelson(D) (202) 228-2183
HI: Akaka(D) (202) 224-2126
HI: Inouye(D) (202) 224-6747
IA: Harkin(D) (202) 224-9369
(319) 365-4683
(515) 284-4937
(563) 582-2342
(712) 252-1638
IL: Durbin(D) (202) 228-0400
IL: Obama(D) (202) 228-4260
IN: Bayh(D) 202-228-1377
LA: Landrieu(D) (202) 224-9735
MA: Kennedy(D) (202) 224-2417
MA: Kerry(D) (202) 224-8525
MD: Mikulski(D) (202) 224-8858
MD: Sarbanes(D) (202) 224-1651
MI: Levin(D) (202) 224-1388
MI: Stabenow(D) (202) 228-0325
MN: Dayton(D) (202) 228-2186
Local (612) 727-5223
MT: Baucus(D) (202) 224-0515
ND: Conrad(D) (202) 224-7776
ND: Dorgan(D) (202) 224-1193
NE: Nelson(D) (202) 228-0012
NJ: Corzine(D) (202) 228-2197
NJ: Lautenberg(D) (202) 224-9707
and (202) 228-4054
NM: Bingaman(D) (202) 224-2852
NV: Reid(D) (202) 224-7327
NY: Clinton(D) (202) 228-0282
NY: Schumer(D) (202) 228-3027
OR: Wyden(D) (202) 228-2717
RI: Reed(D) (202) 224-4680
SD: Johnson(D) (202) 228-0368
VT: Leahy(D) (202) 224-3595
VT: Jeffords(I) No FAX listed
WA: Cantwell(D) (202) 228-0514
WA: Murray(D) (202) 224-0238
WI: Feingold(D) (202) 224-2725
WI: Kohl(D) (202) 224-9787
WV: Rockefeller(D) (202) 224-7665
WV: Byrd(D) (202) 228-0002
Vulnerable Republicans:
Lincoln Chafee Fax: (202) 228-2853 / (401) 453-5085
Susan Collins: Fax: (202) 224-2693 / (207) 990-4604
Olympia Snowe: Fax: (202) 224-1946 / (207) 874-7631
Ted Stevens: Fax: (202) 224-2354
You can still make a differrence.
Think of how the media could be reporting on Alito prior to the SOTU Address:
Via Atrios:
Contact your Senator now and tell them to vote NO on cloture.I just asked my Senator "NOT to vote for cloture...". "Present" or "Abstain" works for me.