SPECTER supported subjecting our troops to trials by the International Criminal Court (ICC)!

U.S. Senate Website ^ | November 10, 2004 | k2blader

[k2blader]

On June 6, 2002, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) voted against adding the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (ASPA) to the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States. Source

The ASPA is "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States Government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not a party." Source

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Essentially, Specter is on record as being the only Republican Senator to vote in support of subjecting our military men and women to criminal prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This is further proof he is not to be trusted and should not head the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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What follows below is the actual roll call vote taken from the U.S. Senate website:

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 107^th Congress - 2^nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Warner Amdt. No. 3597, as amended )
Vote Number:	140	Vote Date:	June 6, 2002, 05:26 PM
Required For Majority:	1/2	Vote Result:	Amendment Agreed to
Amendment Number:	S.Amdt. 3597 to H.R. 4775 (2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States )
Statement of Purpose:	To add the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002.

Vote Counts:	YEAs	75
	NAYs	19
	Not Voting	6

Vote Summary

By Senator Name

By Vote Position

By Home State

Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---75
Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Breaux (D-LA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Carnahan (D-MO) Chafee (R-RI) Cleland (D-GA) Clinton (D-NY) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Corzine (D-NJ) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeWine (R-OH) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND) Edwards (D-NC) Ensign (R-NV)	Enzi (R-WY) Feinstein (D-CA) Fitzgerald (R-IL) Frist (R-TN) Graham (D-FL) Gramm (R-TX) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Hollings (D-SC) Hutchinson (R-AR) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Levin (D-MI) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ)	McConnell (R-KY) Mikulski (D-MD) Miller (D-GA) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Nickles (R-OK) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Santorum (R-PA) Schumer (D-NY) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-NH) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Stabenow (D-MI) Stevens (R-AK) Thomas (R-WY) Thompson (R-TN) Thurmond (R-SC) Torricelli (D-NJ) Warner (R-VA) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---19
Akaka (D-HI) Biden (D-DE) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Carper (D-DE) Dodd (D-CT)	Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Jeffords (I-VT) Kennedy (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Leahy (D-VT) Lieberman (D-CT)	Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) Sarbanes (D-MD) Specter (R-PA) Wellstone (D-MN)

Not Voting - 6
Bingaman (D-NM) Campbell (R-CO)	Daschle (D-SD) Dayton (D-MN)	Helms (R-NC) Voinovich (R-OH)

Vote Summary

By Senator Name

By Vote Position

By Home State

[k2blader]

The title of this thread being first noted by FReeper Baynative, above is the documented evidence of that fact.

Here's what Specter had to say in his defense:

"I am concerned that the ICC may inappropriately subject Americans to criminal prosecution. National sovereignty is a very precious principle that the U.S. should not forgo. However, I have long been of the view that aggressive involvement in UN prepatory commissions would have helped to formulate ICC guidelines consistent with the national interests of the United States."

(as excerpted from Senator Arlen Specter's letter to constituents, dated November 5, 2002)

[GeneralHavoc]

Senate Judiciary Committee Members:
Contact Senator Orrin Hatch 202-224-5251
Contact Senator Charles Grassley 202-224-3744
Contact Senator Jon Kyl 202-224-4521
Contact Senator Mike DeWine 202-224-2315
Contact Senator Jeff Sessions 202-224-4124
Contact Senator Lindsey Graham 202-224-5972
Contact Senator Larry Craig 202-224-2752
Contact Senator Saxby Chambliss 202-224-3521
Contact Senator John Cornyn202-224-2934

[k2blader]

Ping!

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Time to remove the horns of this RINO, and stick him in the back of the Republican bus.

[Quix]

John R,

Have you had enough of Spectre Specter, yet?

Doesn't the Soros brazen call for the world government right away give you enough pause about Specter's allegiences?

[muawiyah]

Well, that's the end of that.

Can't have a Senator on the Judiciary Committee who wants American soldiers subjected to trials by foreign war criminals and sex perverts ('cause that's the caliber of people Europeans manage to dig up to sit on these courts or other high positions. I'm recalling Kurt Waldheim ~ only guy in the German Army in WWII to never get promoted above Lt., but he was cutting orders to send folks to death camps ~ a quite tyical European magistrate or administrator)

Best we do everything we can to keep ourselves clear of those people when it comes to running a trial.

[k2blader]

Thank you for keeping on top of this!

[Asclepius]

SPECTER supported subjecting our troops to trials by the International Criminal Court (ICC)!

Specter supported the guidelines because to do so would open the possibility of undermining the ICC from within. Sort of like Bush signing McCain-Fiengold believing that the courts would save us.

Specter's policies may seem to tack leftward, but it is all a ruse to lull his enemies to sleep as he pursues his radically conservative agendas.

Get it?

[keat]

Jeez! Even sKerry voted for it!

I've seen alot of debate on this site with more than a few respected Freepers arguing in favor of Specter's nomination. I challenge anyone to defend him after reading this!

[k2blader]

Quix, If I am not mistaken, I think it was FReeper John Robertson, not John Robinson, who supports Specter. FRegards.

[Uncle Vlad]

Say it ain't so! Not Mr. "Not Proven" Scottish Law! I'm shocked! Shocked!

[CrosscutSaw]

Essentially, Specter is on record as being the only Republican Senator to vote in support of subjecting our military men and women to criminal prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Senator "Marbles in Mouth" must not be made Chairman of the Judiciary Comittee.

[GOPologist]

Somebody must have given our President bad information when he supported Specter in the Rep. Senatorial primary in PA.

Of course, this is hindsight--however, those of you who live in states with Rep. members of the Judicial Committee, keep your assault against Specter's chance to be appointed Chairman.

GOOD LUCK!

[k2blader]

Thank *you* for bringing it up!

I didn't even know he had done such a thing until I saw one of your posts on the subject.

[keat]

Wellstone>>>>>Specter>>>>Kerry>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Santorum

Get it?

[k2blader]

Yes. It would be insane to gamble on Specter knowing this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is a very potent issue and not nearly as divisive as the abortion issue with excising the grip of this internationalist from a position of power!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this.