NYC BREAKING: Freep Specter Monday! (5:15 pm, outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel 42nd st (btwn Park/Lex))

at "The Monday Meeting"
Outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel
42nd St. (between-Park & Lex), Manhattan from 5:15-6:30PM

1. CONTACT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO REJECT ARLEN SPECTER'S BID FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP

Urge the Judiciary Committee members listed below to support Senator John Kyl of Arizona for Chairman, so that the anti-Specter forces are not divided among several of the other contenders thus giving Specter a better chance of winning. Kyl has the most seniority after Specter, excepting Grassley who doesn't want the job because he wants to maintain his position as chairman of the Finance Committee.

It is especially important that you contact the member if he is from your state!

If your U.S. Senator(s) in the new Congress is a Republican, contact his or her office immediately and let them know that you want them to fight against the nomination of Arlen Specter as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Let them know that if they don't vote against his nomination, you will not vote for them when it comes time for reelection. You can contact them by telephone through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, and by email by clicking here

Newly elected Republican Senators may not yet be listed. Their contact information is as follows:

FL -- Mel Martinez, fax: 407-897-3130 or 305-897-8595, nilda@melforsenate.org
GA -- Johnny Isakson, 404-705-8822, fax: 404-256-9085, Johnny@isakson.net
LA -- David Vitter, phone: 202-225-3015, fax: 202-225-0739,
NC -- Richard Burr, phone: 336-777-1170, fax: 336-773-0198, richard.burrnc05@mail.house.gov
OK -- Tom Coburn, phone: 918-684-4308, fax: 918-684-4309, info@coburnforsenate.com
SC -- Jim DeMint, phone: 866-546-2004 or 202-225-6030, fax: 202-226-1177
SD -- John Thune, phone: 605-221-1010, fax: 605-221-1021, info@johnthune.com

Sen. Bill Frist (Tn.), majority leader. Phone: 202-224-3344, fax 202-228-1264. Email: Bill_Frist@FristSenate.gov
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), majority whip. Phone 202-224-2541, fax 202-224-2499, http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm
Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-6324, fax 202-228-0604 or fax 202-228-4991, santorum.senate.gov/emailrjs.html
Sen. George Allen (Va.), chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-675-6000 (NRSC), fax 202-675-6058, allen.senate.gov/index.cfm?c=email
Sen. Norm Coleman (Mn.), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-5641, fax 202-224-1152, coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-6342, fax 202-224-1100, dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Tx.), vice-chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-5922, fax 202-224-0776, hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm

KEEP ARLEN SPECTER OFF THE SENATE JUDICIARY

Specter warns Bush on high court nominations

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA -- The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush today against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.

Sen. Arlen Specter, fresh from winning a fifth term in Pennsylvania, also said the current Supreme Court now lacks legal "giants" on the bench.

"When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely," Specter said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

"The president is well aware of what happened, when a bunch of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster," Specter added, referring to Senate Democrats' success over the past four years in blocking the confirmation of many of Bush's conservative judicial picks. "... And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning."

With at least three Supreme Court justices rumored to be eyeing retirement, including ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Specter, 74, would have broad authority to reshape the nation's highest court. He would have wide latitude to schedule hearings, call for votes and make the process as easy or as hard as he wants.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., expressed confidence Wednesday that Bush will have more success his second term in winning the confirmation of his judicial nominees.

"I'm very confident that now we've gone from 51 seats to 55 seats, we will be able to overturn this what has become customary filibuster of judicial nominees," Frist said in Orlando, Fla.

Legal scholar Dennis Hutchinson said Specter's message to the White House appears to be "a way of asserting his authority" as he prepares to chair the Judiciary Committee when Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is term-limited from keeping the post next year.

"What he may be trying to do is say, 'Don't just think that I'm going to process what you send through. I have standards, I'm going to take an independent look, you have to deal with me,'" said Hutchinson, a law professor at the University of Chicago.

When asked Wednesday about Specter's impending chairmanship, another Republican on the panel, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, did not offer a ringing endorsement.

"We'll have to see where he stands," said Cornyn, a close friend of Bush who worked to get all of the president's nominees through the Senate. "I'm hoping that he will stand behind the president's nominees. I'm intending to sit down and discuss with him how things are going to work. We want to know what he's going do and how things are going to work."

While Specter is a loyal Republican -- Bush endorsed him in a tight Pennsylvania GOP primary -- he routinely crosses party lines to pass legislation and counts a Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as one of his closest friends.

A self-proclaimed moderate, he helped kill President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court and of Jeff Sessions to a federal judgeship. Specter called both nominees too extreme on civil rights issues. Sessions later became a Republican senator from Alabama and now sits on the Judiciary Committee with Specter.

Despite a bruising challenge from conservatives this year in Pennsylvania's GOP primary, Specter won re-election Tuesday by an 11-point margin by appealing to moderate Republicans and ticket-splitting Democrats, even as Pennsylvania chose Democrat John Kerry over Bush.

A former district attorney, Specter also bemoaned what he called the lack of any current justices comparable to legal heavyweights like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Thurgood Marshall, "who were giants of the Supreme Court."

"With all due respect to the (current) U.S. Supreme Court, we don't have one," he said.

Though he refused to describe the political leanings of the high court, Specter said he "would characterize myself as moderate; I'm in the political swim. I would look for justices who would interpret the Constitution, as Cardozo has said, reflecting the values of the people."

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Eds: Associated Press writer Jesse J. Holland in Washington contributed to this report.

Do you wish us to back off the Constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly? If we loose that right, it would be similar to loosing the Constitutional "right to life..."

No one is following Specter. It is a peaceful assembly, as guaranteed by the Constitution. Specter can stop the letters, FAXs, emails and demonstrations by simply withdrawing from the Chair of the Judicial Committee. I (if not We)do not care what the GOP says with regard to backing off. If we do, even the GOP will see that as a sign of weakness. If the DEMs are enjoying this, so be it, they lost, and that says it all.

Without knowing the Rabbi's religious affiliation, I would bet he is Orthodox. The Orthodox, like most decent people, think that abortion is an abomination.

I have written an Orthodox friend to stand with the Rabbi in my stead, as I am in Fl. Sitting back will allow Specter to duck his obligation to the electorate, as he has done in the past. Why Bush backed him is beyond me, I guess to get PA, which didn't happen. To allow a RINO like Specter to think the people do not care, that is wrong. I heard on the MSM, radio, that Specter has received death threats. Such threats are wrong, but protesting is proper and American.

Join the urgent national Grassroots pro-life campaign to Block

anti-Life Senator Arlen Specter of PA from the Senate Judiciary Chair

through protest, petitions, emails, and faxes... at these brand new websites:

Print Flyer Here

Stop Specter Now.com

StopSpecter.Net

StopSpecter.org

NotSpecter.com/fax101

We Want a Strong Leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee - GOPUSA
"New Pro-Abortion Senate Judiciary Chair?" - Voices Heard
Arlen Specter MUST NOT become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. - nospecter
Pull chair out from under RINO Arlen Specter - Conservative Petitions
Petition to Republican Senators Opposing the Election of Senator Arlen Specter - AFA
THE FAIR JUDICIARY OATH - Coalition for Fair Judiciary

and

Join New York Pro-Life Leaders

The Rabbi Yehuda Levin & Chris Slattery

and many others for a

"Stop Specter -Pro-Life Picket"

Monday, November 15th

Outside Speaking event of Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Rick Santorum

at "The Monday Meeting"

Outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel

42nd St. (between-Park & Lex), Manhattan

from 5:15-6:30PM

and join an Interfaith Coalition of Pro-Life leaders

Rev. Pat Mahoney, Christian Defense Coalition,

Rev. Rob Schenck, Faith in Action

Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Union of Orthodox Rabbis

Joe Starrs, American Life League

Mary Ann Kreitzer, Catholic Media Coalition

Troy Newman, Operation Rescue West

Chris Slattery, Expectant Mother Care (for ID only)

and many others for a

"Stop Specter Pro-Life Pray-In"

Tuesday, November 16th

Join us as the Senate returns from recess
1PM sharp at 1st St. and Constitution Ave.

[Some will attend outside press conference and pray & protest outside Senate Office Building and some will pray inside the office]

Senator Bill First

461 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC

[Afternoon 2:30PM Strategy meeting at nearby location]

Call or email Chris Slattery for Free rides from NY and NJ,

Details or Information: @ SlatteryNY@aol.com or

(914) 224-5773

1. CONTACT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO REJECT ARLEN SPECTER'S BID FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), phone 202-224-5251, fax 202-224-6331
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), phone 202-224-3744, fax 202-224-6020
Jon Kyl (R-Az.), phone 202-224-4521, fax 202-224-2207
Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), phone 202-224-2315, fax 202-224-6519
Jeff Sessions (R-Al.), phone 202-224-4124, fax 202-224-3149
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), 202-224-5972, fax 202-224-3808
Larry Craig (R-Id.), phone 202-224-2752, fax 202-228-1067
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), phone 202-224-3521, fax 202-224-0103
John Cornyn (R-Tx.), phone 202-224-2934, fax 202-228-2856

Email address can be found by clicking here

2. CONTACT YOUR REPUBLICAN SENATOR(S)

If your U.S. Senator(s) in the new Congress is a Republican, contact his or her office immediately and let them know that you want them to fight against the nomination of Arlen Specter as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Let them know that if they don't vote against his nomination, you will not vote for them when it comes time for reelection. You can contact them by telephone through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, and by email by clicking here

Newly elected Republican Senators may not yet be listed. Their contact information is as follows:

FL -- Mel Martinez, fax: 407-897-3130 or 305-897-8595,
GA -- Johnny Isakson, 404-705-8822, fax: 404-256-9085,
LA -- David Vitter, phone: 202-225-3015, fax: 202-225-0739,
NC -- Richard Burr, phone: 336-777-1170, fax: 336-773-0198,
OK -- Tom Coburn, phone: 918-684-4308, fax: 918-684-4309,
SC -- Jim DeMint, phone: 866-546-2004 or 202-225-6030, fax: 202-226-1177
SD -- John Thune, phone: 605-221-1010, fax: 605-221-1021

3. CONTACT THE SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP

Sen. Bill Frist (Tn.), majority leader. Phone: 202-224-3344, fax 202-228-1264.

Sen. Mitch McConnell ( Ky. ), majority whip. Phone 202-224-2541, fax 202-224-2499

Sen. Rick Santorum ( Pa. ), chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-6324, fax 202-228-0604 or fax 202-228-4991

Sen. George Allen (VA ), chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-675-6000 (NRSC), fax 202-675-6058

Sen. Norm Coleman (Mn.), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-5641, fax 202-224-1152

Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC), candidate to become the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Phone 202-224-6342, fax 202-224-1100,

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Tx.), vice-chairman, Senate Republican Conference. Phone 202-224-5922, fax 202-224-0776

4. Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) 202-224-2934

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (202) 224-5251

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) (202)224.3744

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (202) 224-4521

Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) (202) 224-2315

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (202) 224-4124

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (202) 224-5972

Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) 202/224-2752

Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) (202) 224-3521

Senator Bill Frist, Phone 202 224-3344, Fax 202-228-1264

Senator Rick Santorum, Phone 202-224-6324, Fax 202-228-0604

Message for Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Senator Arlen Specter is an unacceptable choice to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. Please do not vote to give him the Chairmanship. Instead, please select a Senator who does not have a pro-abortion litmus test and one who will work cooperatively with President Bush. Thank you.

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