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***FR HELP REQUESTED for Senate Judiciary Filibuster next Wed/Thurs.!!***
Coalition for Fair Judiciary ^ | 11/8/03 | diotima

Posted on 11/08/2003 11:12:23 AM PST by diotima

***Urgent Help Needed!***

Support the Senate Republican filibuster on judicial nominees!!!

STOP THE DEMOCRAT OBSTRUCTION!

SUPPORT FRIST-MILLER!

What you can do to help:
Frist Hopes to Change Filibuster Rules
by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent

Senate majority leader wants to lower the number of votes needed to stop Democratic blockade of President Bush's judicial nominees.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has had enough of his Democratic colleagues filibustering conservative judicial nominees — so he has plans to make breaking those filibusters easier.

Frist wants to do it by changing Senate rules governing the number of votes needed to override a filibuster. His attempt to do it through a Senate resolution is co-sponsored by Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga.

"It would end the filibuster as applied to the president's nominations," explained Manuel Miranda, a Frist aide. "On the first vote there would be the 60 votes that we have now, and then it would escalate downward so that at the end . . . a simple majority would be able to do what the Constitution calls upon senators to do — have an honest, fair up-or-down vote."

Attorney Deanna Mool of the Republican National Lawyers Association said Democrats have applied a litmus test to judicial nominees by blocking Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen and Bill Pryor.

"If the Democrats don't like the view of the appointee on certain issues, they just say, 'You know what? We're not going to allow a vote on this guy or woman and we don't have to seat them.' It's just wrong."

Miranda said he thinks most people understand how wrong it is, which is why he predicts success for the Republicans.

"I think the American people are becoming very aware and sensitized to the issue of the judiciary, the importance of the judiciary and how bad it can be when the judiciary goes awry," he said.

1. CONTACT YOUR SENATORS- Send emails, make phone calls and send faxes. Tell the Republicans you support the fillibuster and Frist-Miller. Tell the Democrats TO STOP THE OBSTRUCTION!

2. CONTACT THE MEDIA- Write letters to the editor at your local newspapers urging the Democrats to TO STOP OBSTRUCTING BUSH'S JUDICIAL NOMINEES!

3. GATHER A GROUP OF PEOPLE AND GO TO YOUR SENATORS OFFICE- Tell them you support the filibuster

4. ATTEND THE FILIBUSTER! CONTACT ME ABOUT GETTING IN. GO AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE REPUBLICAN SENATE, BRING COOKIES FOR THEM! THERE WILL BE PRESS CONFERENCES STARTING WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND ALL DAY THURSDAY. TALK RADIO WILL BE BROADCASTING FROM THE SENATE AND RADIO FREE REPUBLIC WILL BE THERE, INTERVIEWING!

SUPPORT THE SENATE WHEN THEY SHOW SOME BACKBONE!!!!!


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters
KEYWORDS: filibuster; hughhewitt; judicialnominees; obstruction; ratobstruction; ratsafraid
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To: firebrand
http://clinton.senate.gov/email_form.html
181 posted on 12/27/2003 3:01:13 PM PST by alrea (let's go back to when liberalism meant gaining more freedom from central authority)
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To: SteelTrap

182 posted on 12/27/2003 3:02:42 PM PST by SteelTrap
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To: SteelTrap
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183 posted on 12/27/2003 3:06:00 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
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To: MeeknMing
Sorry but I was testing my html skills and having major problems getting an image loaded. When I saw your last post it looked like there should have been a photo. Finially figured it out - I had Mozilla configured to ignore images that didn't come from the originating server. Duh!

Anyway, if your interested...check this out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1047280/posts?q=1&&page=77#77
184 posted on 12/27/2003 3:22:29 PM PST by SteelTrap
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To: SteelTrap
Hey ! Not a problem whatsoever. I was just horsing around. Found a couple
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Humor, a bit different, but my humor ! :OO

Happy Festivus ! ...

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If I can't help, then maybe we can both learn something !


185 posted on 12/27/2003 4:41:41 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
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