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Don't Let Frist Eliminate the Filibuster!
- signatures:
- deadline: April 21, 2006
- signature goal: 40,000
- Target: The U.S. Senate
- Sponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Our ability to save the Supreme Court from President Bush could hang in the balance...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is hatching a plan to allow President Bush to pack the courts with extremist judges. Frist wants to take away pro-choice Democrats most powerful line of defense against extremist judges: the filibuster.
Called the "nuclear option" because of the explosive consequences it would have in the Senate Frists plan would allow anti-choice Republican leaders to change Senate rules to prevent the filibuster of judicial nominees.
During President Bushs first term, senators used the filibuster carefully and selectively. The Senate confirmed more than 200 of President Bushs judicial nominees to lifetime appointments, and used the filibuster to block only 10 of his most controversial nominees. Clearly, this is not a Senate rule that is being abused.
If you value balance and moderation on our courts, and believe the Senate should carefully review judges who are being considered for lifetime appointments, then you need to take action to stop Senator Frist today!
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is hatching a plan to allow President Bush to pack the courts with extremist judges. Frist wants to take away pro-choice Democrats most powerful line of defense against extremist judges: the filibuster.
Called the "nuclear option" because of the explosive consequences it would have in the Senate Frists plan would allow anti-choice Republican leaders to change Senate rules to prevent the filibuster of judicial nominees.
During President Bushs first term, senators used the filibuster carefully and selectively. The Senate confirmed more than 200 of President Bushs judicial nominees to lifetime appointments, and used the filibuster to block only 10 of his most controversial nominees. Clearly, this is not a Senate rule that is being abused.
If you value balance and moderation on our courts, and believe the Senate should carefully review judges who are being considered for lifetime appointments, then you need to take action to stop Senator Frist today!
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Dear [your Senator],
I am writing to ask you to oppose any changes to Senate rules to prevent the filibuster of judicial nominees.
It's critical that the Senate independently review each judicial nominee and take into account each nominee's record, ideological views, and knowledge of the law. Short-cutting Senate debate on lifetime appointments to the federal court is inappropriate and dangerous.
Sincerely,
[your name]
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