Ted Kennedy speech today..A Vote Against Alito Is a Vote for Progress

[diamondsndust]

A Vote Against Alito Is a Vote for Progress
Today Senator Kennedy delivered the following speech at the Center for American Progress.

Thank you, Melody, for that generous introduction, and thank you for your vision and effective leadership on so many issues of such paramount concern to the nation. Our Judiciary Committee in the Senate today just isn’t the same without you!

I’m grateful to the Center for American Progress for hosting us here today, and I commend you for the difference you’ve already begun to make. Keep up the great work.

It’s an honor to be here to address all of you on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. As you know so well, the stakes for our nation could not be higher. This is the vote of a generation. If confirmed, this nominee will have an enormous impact on our basic rights and liberties for years and even decades to come.

The Alito hearings, as well as those for Chief Justice Roberts before them, show the need for change in the way we learn a nominee’s views on our laws and the Constitution. Instead of a free and honest exchange of ideas, our hearings have become stylized and choreographed appearances in which nominees are coached to say as little as possible. When it comes to lifetime appointments to the highest court in the land, surely the American people deserve better.

see the rest here: http://www.tedkennedy.com/journal/580/a-vote-against-alito-is-a-vote-for-progress

[Pam-Moby]

1. Thanks for posting this. Kennedy is a good guy.

I knew we could count on him.

[diamondsndust]

6. happy to do it..

seems like we are getting more and more support to keep Smilin' Sammy out!! I've sent so many emails to senators in the last week, I feel like maybe I'm a lobbyist!! Isn't that what we are really doing anyways?? Lobbying against Alito???

[onecent]

2. Who made the law that they could remain on the Supreme Court until

they are 100 yrs old and/or senile???

[Mass]

3. I think it was part of the original constitution

However, consider that at this time, people did not live that long and that most justices only sat on the Court for 10 to 15 years maximum.

May be it would be time, as people live longer, to limit justices' terms to 15 years or something like that.

[robbedvoter]

4. Got it in a good letter as well

[Uncle Joe]

5. Excellent speech by Ted.

Kicked and recommended.

:kick:

[mom cat]

7. Keep sending your concerns to him even if you do not live in

Massachusetts. He is a national leader as are Kerry, Reid, Feingold, and Byrd. We must also keep up the pressure on moderate Republicans to vote against going nuclear or to at least abstain from voting on the issue.

[TayTay]

8. I love Teddy!

He has been fighting the good fight for so long. :loveya: for Uncle Ted, The Greatest Senator Who Ever Lived!