CCR declares "emergency"

From the Center for Constitutional Rights:

The fight over the military commissions bills today isn't about politics, it's about lives, and it's not over...The debate around these bills misses the point: both versions strip away the fundamental right to habeas corpus, the right to challenge your detention in a court of law, not to be locked up under the President's say-so, guilty or innocent, never to be heard from again.

They're asking us to support an amendment to the bills.

An amendment in play could take out this dangerous measure - please use our site to fax your senators and tell them to support the Specter-Levin Amendment on habeas corpus when it gets introduced. The bills are S.3901, The Military Commissions Act of 2006, sponsored by Senator Warner and S.3861, The Bringing Terrorists to Justice Act of 2006, sponsored by Senator Frist. Please call your Senators at [phone] IMMEDIATELY, especially if they are among the 26 we've identified below as critical in this fight.

...This is an EMERGENCY--please forward this alert to as many people as you can.

Do you have a Senator on this list?  If so, please phone his or her office today.

The votes of the following Senators will be critical:

Kent Conrad (ND) [phone]
Joe Lieberman (CT) [phone]
Ben Nelson (NE) [phone]
James Jeffords (VT) [phone]
Lincoln Chafee (RI) [phone]
Richard Lugar (IN) [phone]
Craig Thomas (WY) [phone]
Chuck Hagel (NE) [phone]
Lisa Murkowski (AK) [phone]
John Sununu (NH) [phone]
Peter Dominici (NM) [phone]
Gordon Smith (OR) [phone]
Arlen Specter (PA) [phone]
Daniel Inouye (HI) [phone]
Mary Landrieu (LA) [phone]
Ron Wyden (OR) [phone]
Olympia Snowe (ME) [phone]
Susan Collins (ME) [phone]
Carl Levin (MI) [phone]
Hillary Clinton (NY) [phone]
Richard Durbin (IL) [phone]
Harry Reid (NV) [phone]
John Kerry (MA) [phone]
Lindsey Graham (SC) [phone]
John Warner (VA) [phone]
John McCain (AZ) [phone]