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SENATOR SPECTER WARNS BUSH ON HIGH COURT NOMINATIONS
Senator Arlen
Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, has warned President Bush not to send
to the Senate for a judicial appointment (including the Supreme Court) any
nominee who is a strict constructionist (in other words, who is not
pro-choice.
Specter implied that he is prepared to filibuster any
nominee that he (Specter) considers too conservative.
Specter is the
person who killed the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court and tried
to kill the nomination of Clarence Thomas. This is the person Pres. Bush went to
Pennsylvania to campaign for. But Specter knows it will be six years before he
will be up for re-election and feels free to do as he pleases. He can even spit
in the face of the President if he desires. His turning on the President, who
helped him get re-elected, shows his character.
READ CLIPS FROM THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE BELOW
Under Senate tradition, Specter is
scheduled to become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee that handles all
judicial appointments. Specter has sent the message that he will join with
liberal Democrats to kill any conservative appointments.
TAKE
ACTION
If you have a Republican Senator (you may even have two), call
them today and tell them not to vote for Senator Specter for Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. The Chairman is chosen by secret ballot by the Republican
Caucus which includes all Republican Senators.
Tell your Republican
Senator(s) that if Sen. Specter is allowed to serve as Chairman, it will be
considered a slap in the face of all the Values Voters who voted for Pres. Bush.
And it will be considered a betrayal of trust, in light of the fact that Bush
ran opposing Senators blocking his appointments—such as Sen. Specter has
promised to do.
You can reach your Republican Senator by calling the
Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121. Ask for your Senator by name, or give the
operator your zip code. It does no good to call a Democrat senator.
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this email to at least one friend.
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated
Press
PHILADELPHIA -- The Republican expected to chair the
Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President
Bush today against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to
overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win
confirmation.
"When you talk about judges who would change the
right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely,"
Specter said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing
abortion.
"The president is well aware of what happened, when a
bunch of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster," Specter added,
referring to Senate Democrats' success over the past four years in blocking
the confirmation of many of Bush's conservative judicial picks. "... And I
would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am
mentioning."
(As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee) Specter, 74,
would have broad authority to reshape the nation's highest court (in the new
Congress). He would have wide latitude to schedule hearings, call for votes
and make the process as easy or as hard as he wants.
Legal scholar
Dennis Hutchinson said Specter's message to the White House appears to be "a
way of asserting his authority" as he prepares to chair the Judiciary
Committee when Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is term-limited from keeping the post
next year.
"A self-proclaimed moderate, he helped kill President
Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court and of Jeff Sessions
to a federal judgeship. Specter called both nominees too extreme on civil
rights issues. Sessions later became a Republican senator from Alabama and now
sits on the Judiciary Committee with Specter.
TAKE
ACTION
If you have a Republican Senator (you may even have two), call
them today and tell them not to vote for Senator Specter for Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. The Chairman is chosen by secret ballot by the Republican
Caucus which includes all Republican Senators.
Tell your Republican
Senator(s) that if Sen. Specter is allowed to serve as Chairman, it will be
considered a slap in the face of all the Values Voters who voted for Pres. Bush.
And it will be considered a betrayal of trust, in light of the fact that Bush
ran opposing Senators blocking his appointments—such as Sen. Specter has
promised to do.
You can reach your Republican Senator by calling the
Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121. Ask for your Senator by name, or give the
operator your zip code. It does no good to call a Democrat senator.
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warning that the sanitized version of homosexuality being presented to students
is not the whole truth.
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