Wrote thisDear Senator Spector,
As your constituent, I feel that I must remind you of your pledge to vote down any Supreme Court nominee who would purposefully seek to overturn Roe V. Wade.
Respectfully, my witness of the hearings has clearly indicated that at best, Mr. Alito had not been clear about whether he was pre-determined to overturn the ruling if appointed, and at worst, Mr. Alito sought to conceal the real presence of such an agenda.
Frankly, sir, I am weary of your and Senator Santorum's performances as my Senators. Further, I feel that you have lost a sense of your primary duty as a Senator, which is to serve and represent the values of your constituents and therefore protect their Constitutional rights above all else. And so, once again I am compelled to remind you of this, the greatest link between the ordinary citizen and his government.
To sever this link is to destroy the Constitutional rights of the ordinary citizen. To harm your constituents in this way is to commit treason.
I implore you, Senator, to hold to your original statement and vote against this nomination in spite of any political pressure you may feel. I remind you that such political pressure is your own problem and not mine or any of your constituents'.
Should you wish to reply, please reply to me directly. I am not interested in reading the form letter you have constructed about this matter for a fifth time.
I look forward to witnessing you hold to your original statement by voting this nomination down.
Regards,
Andrew G. Gatto
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Got This: Dear Mr. Gatto :
Thank you for contacting my office regarding the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . I appreciate hearing your thoughts regarding this important matter.
I have known Judge Alito for the better part of two decades. He brings to this nomination a longstanding record in public service. For the past fifteen years, he has served as a judge on the Philadelphia-based United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Alito has participated in thousands of appeals and authored hundreds of opinions. In his career, he has argued twelve Supreme Court cases and at least two dozen court of appeals cases.
Judge Alito attended Princeton University , and then studied at Yale Law School where he received high marks and served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Leonard Garth on the Third Circuit.
Following his clerkship, Judge Alito served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the appellate division. In 1981, he became Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Reagan Administration where he argued on behalf of the federal government in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Alito then served in the Office of Legal Counsel as Deputy Assistant Attorney General where he advised the executive branch on constitutional matters.
In 1987, Judge Alito was unanimously confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the district of New Jersey. In 1990, Judge Alito was nominated to the 3 rd Circuit by President George H. W. Bush. He was unanimously confirmed by a voice vote of the Senate.
As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will ensure that Judge Alito receives a fair and thorough confirmation hearing. I believe that he is entitled to be heard, and I take the Senate's role in the confirmation process very seriously. Short of a declaration of war, the most important function of the United States Senate is the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justices for lifetime terms.
Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact my office or visit my website at
http://specter.senate.gov . Thank you again for writing.
Sincerely,
Arlen Specter
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Seems that he has written a new form letter... Still, it does nothing to address my SPECIFIC CONCERNS.
.... Tired, tired; so tired.
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