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The Family Research Council has compiled a scorecard of candidates and how they voted. It is available through the links, however I have not downloaded it myself. It includes how candidates stood on the issue of Terri.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Pro-family voters interested in knowing where candidates stand on significant issues can consult a newly released scorecard that shows how members of Congress voted on issues affecting families.

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Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Connie Mackey, vice president for government affairs with FRC, noted in a joint letter to supporters that the House “recognized the renewed importance of Congress’s role in protecting the family by passing legislation that included increased fines for indecency, ... elimination of the death tax, ... and an attempt to halt the court-ordered starvation” of Terri Schiavo.

ELECTION 06: Focus, FRC compile pro-family vote scorecard

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1,720 posted on 10/28/2006 8:31:32 AM PDT by 8mmMauser ("We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest.")

Activist judge Sandra Day O'Connor does not want to be called an activist judge. Fair enough! I have been calling her something else anyway.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sandra Day O'Connor noticed a disturbing development as her last day on the Supreme Court neared. Over her final years on the bench, more people were talking about "activist judges," an issue she said that appeared to be "erupting all over the country."

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In 2005, two court cases that caught the public's attention and the president's choices for new Supreme Court justices made the judiciary a political fireball, prompting an intense debate on how judges should operate.

The Terri Schiavo case turned on who, if anyone, had the legal right to allow Schiavo, who was ruled by lower courts to be in a "persistent vegetative state," to die. Despite attempts from Republicans lawmakers and President Bush to intervene by passing a law pertaining to the case, the Supreme Court ultimately refused to hear the matter and she died days after her feeding tube was removed.

O'Connor: Don't call us 'activist judges'

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1,721 posted on 10/28/2006 8:38:10 AM PDT by 8mmMauser ("We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest.")

Nope, doesn't live up to advertising.

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1,755 posted on 10/29/2006 5:18:20 AM PST by 8mmMauser ("We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest.")

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