Urge your Senator TODAY to vote NO on Alito

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Monday January 16, 2006 · 7:46 AM PST

2006/01/16 · 07:46

This will be brief, I promise.

Here's the text of a letter I sent to my Senator this morning:

Please vote NO on Judge Alito's nomination.
I believe that if Judge Alito is confirmed, he will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade when the opportunity comes. Nothing in his career has shown me otherwise. There is, instead, plenty in his career to that says he believes that there is no right to abortion. Furthermore, during the hearings, he refused to state that Roe is "settled law," despite many opportunities to do so.
But I'm also concerned about his views on Presidential power. At a time when this President is gathering more power to his office than I believe the Framers envisioned, Judge Alito stands ready to enable the President to gather even more. His stance on "signing statements" is ominous and it would be a mistake to allow him to ascend to the court and rule on this issue when (not if) it reaches the court for review.
Please vote no on Judge Alito.

It was Edmund Burke who said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." You can shrug and say Alito is not "evil," you can walk away and say the court still has a majority in favor of Roe. But you cannot walk away and do nothing because one day your daughter or granddaughter will ask you what it was like to live in a free country.

And you won't know what to tell her.

Call your Senator. Write your Senator. Fax your Senator. Email your Senator. However you do it, tell them TODAY to vote NO on Alito.

Senate phone numbers and addresses

Please do it now before it's too late to make any difference:

Click the link.
Look up your Senator.
Get the phone number.
Call their office and urge them TODAY to vote NO on Alito.

Simply recite my letter to them if you like, or rephrase it any way you want.

Just please DO IT NOW.

Thanks.

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