REPUBLICANS TRY TO FAST-TRACK FAR-RIGHT SUPREME COURT NOMINEES ACTION: Call your senators and urge them to OPPOSE changing the Senate rules for consideration of nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. ACTION PLAN: Senate Republicans are demanding a radical change in the Senate rules -- a change that would weaken the role of the Judiciary Committee in the consideration of Supreme Court nominees. This change would allow the Bush administration to get Supreme Court nominees to the Senate floor even after a negative vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee and would encourage President Bush to select far-right nominees. DON'T LET THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT SHORT-CIRCUIT THE PROCESS THAT HAS GUARDED YOUR FREEDOMS FOR TWO CENTURIES! Call your senators TODAY and tell them to OPPOSE any rules resolution that limits the Senate Judiciary Committee's ability to evaluate potential Supreme Court justices! FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR COMPLETE CONTACT INFORMATION: http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm ________________________________________________________________ *** RELIGIOUS RIGHT SEEKS "FAIRNESS"...FOR RIGHT-WING JUDGES *** --Christian Coalition of America Action Alert, June 21, 2001-- "Please provide basic fairness and vote next week to allow President Bush's future Supreme Court nominees to come to the Senate floor for a vote." The Christian Coalition and their right-wing allies in the Senate are insisting that anyone nominated to the Supreme Court by President Bush be given a vote on the Senate floor regardless of the Judiciary Committee's recommendation. Although this procedure has been allowed on an individual basis in the past, never before in our history has such a rule been in place -- and for good reason. The Judiciary Committee offers senators and their constituents an opportunity to publicly scrutinize and review candidates for LIFE-TIME appointments to the federal bench. The Bush administration has already tried to minimize such scrutiny by removing the American Bar Association from the official process of evaluating nominees. Under the proposed rule change, a Supreme Court nominee who did not receive even one vote of support in the Judiciary Committee could still automatically move on to the Senate floor for a vote. THIS IS NOT "BASIC FAIRNESS"! THIS IS COURTING DISASTER!!! A vote on this matter could occur as early as this week. Call your senators and stand up for true fairness with Supreme Court nominees! As you can see above, Religious Right activists are already taking action. Your calls will make a difference! ------------------ Everything you do, effects everything that is.
