from MAJORITY REPORT: KEEP FIGHTING!!!!!

[stepnw1f]

Just heard one Female Republican Senator is going to vote NO!

[Beaverhausen]

1. Snow or Collins?

[Guaranteed]

12. Snowe hasn't voted yet....Collins voted yes. nt

[IndyOp]

2. No on Alito -- Or supports a filibuster?

You heard it on Majority Report?

Please provide *all* details...

Thank you! :bounce:

[art3]

3. TELL US

hi
please give us transcript etc-this would help this movement alot

[CottonBear]

4. Caller wouldn't say but she seemed to have some inside info. n/t

[mountainvue]

5. CSPAN is showing Collins as a "yes."

So, it must be Snowe.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. Collins, that wacko...

I am flipping ashamed of her. MY senator.

:cry:

:blush::blush:

[mom cat]

6. Fantastic. It could be either or both...Keep calling them.

:bounce:

[MelissaB]

7. I heard it, too and was just getting in the house to post this.

Yeaaahhhhhh!

[babylonsister]

8. GREAT news! K & N! nt

[Angry Girl]

9. that's great news

[Wordie]

10. K&R

[mmonk]

11. Great!

It's time to hit the moderate republicans and let them know this man is not a conservative, because a mainstream conservative wouldn't screw with the constitution. Alito is a RADICAL.

[Zan_of_Texas]

14. Radical views - says NYT

I'm not ordinarily citing the NYT, but in this case, I am.

January 23, 2006
NEW YORK TIMES
Editorial

Judge Alito's Radical Views

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/opinion/23mon1.html

If Judge Samuel Alito Jr.'s confirmation hearings lacked drama, apart from his wife's bizarrely over-covered crying jag, it is because they confirmed the obvious. Judge Alito is exactly the kind of legal thinker President Bush wants on the Supreme Court. He has a radically broad view of the president's power, and a radically narrow view of Congress's power. He has long argued that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights. He wants to reduce the rights and liberties of ordinary Americans, and has a history of tilting the scales of justice against the little guy.

As senators prepare to vote on the nomination, they should ask themselves only one question: will replacing Sandra Day O'Connor with Judge Alito be a step forward for the nation, or a step backward? Instead of Justice O'Connor's pragmatic centrism, which has kept American law on a steady and well-respected path, Judge Alito is likely to bring a movement conservative's approach to his role and to the Constitution.

...

It is likely that Judge Alito was chosen for his extreme views on presidential power. The Supreme Court, with Justice O'Connor's support, has played a key role in standing up to the Bush administration's radical view of its power, notably that it can hold, indefinitely and without trial, anyone the president declares an "unlawful enemy combatant."

Judge Alito would no doubt try to change the court's approach. He has supported the fringe "unitary executive" theory, which would give the president greater power to detain Americans and would throw off the checks and balances built into the Constitution. He has also put forth the outlandish idea that if the president makes a statement when he signs a bill into law, a court interpreting the law should give his intent the same weight it gives to Congress's intent in writing and approving the law.

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[radio4progressives]

15. K&R

[fooj]

16. Wow!

NGU! Never!

Peace.:patriot: