Posted on 10/31/2005 11:18:33 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Subject: Wexler: Alito's Nomination to Supreme Court, Bush's Halloween Scare for America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 31, 2005
Contact: Lale Mamaux Phone: (202)225-3001 Cell: (202)225-1913
Wexler: Alito's Nomination to Supreme Court, Bush's Halloween Scare for America
Calls on Democrats and Moderate Republicans in Senate to Oppose Nomination and Filibuster Alito
(Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) issued the following statement on President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., to replace Justice Sandra Day O' Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Alito has an extensive paper trail of making extremely conservative legal decisions and opinions that will tip the balance of the Supreme Court.
Wexler is urging his Democratic and moderate Republican colleagues in the Senate to filibuster Alito's nomination:
"The divisive nomination of Judge Samuel Alito by President Bush is extremely disconcerting and the American people should be troubled that this weakened President is beholden to extremists within his own party, who clearly have been given the keys to the White House. By choosing Judge Alito and kowtowing to the conservative right, President Bush, led by a tainted Karl Rove, has made a calculated Machiavellian decision to tear the nation apart in order to placate a minority radical Republican base.
"Instead of nominating a consensus candidate like Justice O' Connor, whose moderate voice was often a swing vote on the Court, President Bush has put forward a right-wing ideologue whose frightening judicial philosophy will destroy the existing balance of the Court. Judge Alito has a lengthy and dubious record of ruling against women's reproductive rights and, if confirmed, there is no doubt he will use his vote on our nation's highest court to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Women across America, who value their personal privacy when it comes to making reproductive decisions, should be extremely alarmed by this nomination and what repercussions lie in store for the future of women's reproductive freedoms.
I urge my Democratic and moderate Republican colleagues in the Senate to filibuster this disastrous nomination.
If confirmed, Mr. Alito will sit on the Supreme Court as its most right-wing judge, making far-reaching decisions that will, no doubt, negatively impact the course of American history," Wexler said.
Congressman Wexler is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Lale M. Mamaux Communications Director Office of Congressman Robert Wexler 213 Cannon House Office Building (202) 225- 3001 lale.mamaux@mail.house.gov
Democrats invented divisive!
TALKING POINTS, TALKING POINTS AND MORE TALKING POINTS....
Does Wexler do anything but issue press releases?
This nomination, along with that of John Roberts, will cement Bush's place in history. The court will, at long last, return to law based on the Constitution rather than opinion poll.
Yessss! Make my day!
we don't want swing votes. we want unanimous decisions!
Bader-Ginsburg was unanimous cause the GOP put up no fight, unfortunately.
I'm getting soooo tired of the Schumers, et al, intonation of the words "In the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor," said in their Ted from the Mary Tyler Moore show voice.
I'm loving this!
Ah, the "Mouth of Boca"/Boca de Boca speaks.
Did Wexler forget that he does not get a vote?
STFU! (not you Clemenza - this Wexler putz)
I'm not confident about the results of a "Constitutional Option" vote yet. I suspect that two days from now, there will be a much better read of the Senate, especially the key vote of Specter, as well as the "gang of 14" as most like to designate them. I fear a distinct probability of the Nuke vote failing if it comes to that now, though.
I hope it doesn't.
That being said... I'm glad Wexler's unhappy!!!
You gotta love the Dems. calling the GOP the party of "division and fear" and then using Halloween as an excuse to produce one more claim of America needing to be "scared" of something the president has done. Spare me. When is this district in Florida going to wise up and relieve the nation of the burden of having to listen to one more moronic syllable coming out of Wacko Wexler's mouth???
I take it that you've never been to Boca Raton, Coral Springs or the "Turnpike corridor" of Palm Beach County. Wexler's in a safe district, believe me.
Don Scalito: President Bush has made an offer that Senate can't refuse.
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