May 3, 2005
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URGENT:
Contact Your Senators Today
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Use our
toll-free number to contact your
senators now:
1-888-355-3588
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and his allies could be just days away from
breaking Senate rules to railroad dangerous judicial nominees into seats on
federal courts. You must take action now.
Please call your senators now and urge them to reject Frist’s move to ram
through these judges.
Use our toll-free number to contact your
senators now:
1-888-355-3588
Frist wants to bar Senate Democrats—who are alarmed by the extreme,
out-of-the-mainstream records of some of President Bush’s judicial nominees—from
using the filibuster to challenge and block the extremist judges. The idea is so
explosive it’s called the “nuclear option.” It reeks of a plain, ugly power
grab—and the public’s not buying it. A recent poll shows two-thirds of Americans
oppose changing Senate rules just so Bush can get his way on these judges.
So Bush’s supporters are pulling out all the stops now to win some
support—even claiming people like us who challenge extremist judicial nominees
are against “people of faith.”
We need to stop this power grab before it's too late. Please call
your senators now.
Use our toll-free number to call your
senators now:
1-888-355-3588
Federal judges are supposed to protect our rights. Do you trust these people
to do it?
- Janice Rogers Brown, a California Supreme Court justice who calls
programs like Social Security “cannibalization” by senior citizens and who
argued the First Amendment protects the use of racial slurs in the
workplace.
- Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen, who said it’s OK for
employers to make injured workers promise not to sue if they want to collect
certain medical benefits and who effectively tried to rewrite Texas civil
rights law to make it harder for workers to prove their rights were
violated.
- William Myers, former solicitor of the Department of the Interior and
lobbyist for the mining, grazing and cattle industries, whose attacks on
environmental laws and sacred lands have earned unprecedented opposition
from environmentalists, Native Americans and others.
- North Carolina District Court Judge Terrence Boyle, who has been
reversed more than 150 times—many times for “plain errors”— including
reversals in civil rights, voting rights, labor and disability
discrimination cases.
(Sources:
www.civilrights.org;
www.pfaw.org)
These are some of the people this fight is about. We must retain the right
to challenge dangerous judicial nominees the only way we can—with the
filibuster.
Judges are appointed for life and decide cases affecting the rights of
millions of workers. We need checks and balances on these appointments to guard
against extreme appointments.
Please act now: Call your senators and urge them to reject attempts to take
away the right to filibuster judicial nominees.
Use our toll-free number to call your
senators now:
1-888-355-3588
Thanks for working hard for working families.
In solidarity,
Tracey Conaty
AFSCME e-Activist Network
P.S. Once you have called your senators,
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our rights—to do the same.
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