Please phone your Senator to filibuster Samuel Alito

[Eric J in MN]

We need Supreme Court justices who will protect liberty. Alito won't. He'll let the executive branch do whatever they want.

Please call your Senators' offices and leave a message requesting a filibuster.

You can find phone numbers of Senators' offices by entering their last names on the top-left of www.vote-smart.org.

If you prefer to email your Senators, you can include this editorial of the NY Times.

[Trevelyan]

1. Sign email petition here:

Judge Alito’s record makes clear that he would work to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state and to open the door to majority rule on religious matters. Replacing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor with Judge Alito would fundamentally alter First Amendment law and immediately put at risk many of the crucial protections for religious minorities that the Supreme Court has recognized and consistently enforced during the past sixty years. Judge Alito’s judicial philosophy, particularly in how it relates to the Establishment Clause, would be disastrous for religious liberty and the protection of religious minorities.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=/au/issues/alert/?alertid=8318456

[Trevelyan]

2. Another email petition at Congress.org:

==Required text:
(this text will appear at the beginning of your message)
As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins the confirmation hearing on Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to fill the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, I write to share my belief that the Senate should refuse to confirm Judge Samuel Alito because of his troubling record on religious liberty issues. I care deeply about the preservation of religious liberty and the constitutional requirement of the separation of church and state.. If Judge Alito is confirmed, decades of settled church-state law likely will be overturned and religious liberty will be threatened.

Optional text:
=== Judge Alito’s record makes clear that he would work to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state and to open the door to majority rule on religious matters. Replacing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor with Judge Alito would fundamentally alter First Amendment law and immediately put at risk many of the crucial protections for religious minorities that the Supreme Court has recognized and consistently enforced during the past sixty years. Judge Alito’s judicial philosophy, particularly in how it relates to the Establishment Clause, would be disastrous for religious liberty and the protection of religious
minorities.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=/au/issues/alert/?alertid=8318456

[Mabus]

3. Brownback and Roberts are mine

I've already called and e-mailed them. For some reason I don't think they are listening to me.

[liberalnurse]

4. I thought the plan was

to wait until after the Hearings???????? Plus, my Ohio Senators are all repugs....I can't very well ask for a filibuster at this stage of the game......

[Eric J in MN]

5. The public should set the tone now.

Senators can use whatever timing they choose. The sooner we let them know we want a filibuster, the better.

[iconoclastNYC]

6. Not yet.

Don't you think we should wait until the goods come out?

If you do it now you are just going to look like a partisan.

If you wait and can specifically cite things he said during the hearings that bothered you, your complaint will be that much more credible.

[Eric J in MN]

8. It's his decades of legal work which is the issue,

not what he says during a few days of hearings.

Please read about his record at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/opinion/08sun1.html?ex=1137387600&en=7ae880cbd3ad5bcf&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY

[converted_democrat]

7. Done.. n/t

[Avalux]

9. Ah yes - Cornyn and Hutchison

The sad reality of living in Texas. Things will change this year; at least I hope so.

[Rainscents]

10. Do you have 800 number?

[bettyellen]

12. you can get emails + info through their websites linked here

http://www.savethecourt.org/site/c.mwK0JbNTJrF/b.849267/k.CC39/Home.htm

[Jax]

11. Done

we'll see...Cantwell and Murray both Dems, but Murray voted yes on Roberts.

Thank you very much Eric J for this important reminder.

[Tsiyu]

13. Kick

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