Petition -- Opposing the Election of Arlen Specter As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee

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A Petition to Republican Senators Opposing the Election of Senator Arlen Specter As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee

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I agree, Senator Specter should not serve as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sign Here! Please fill out the form below and click the submit button.

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I DON'T THINK SO, ARLEN.
NOT WHILE FREEPERS STAND GUARD.

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To sign the Petition:

http://www.afa.net/petitions/signpetition.asp?id=1290

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Senator Specter has an Agenda — Liberal Judges

“President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation’s future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate.” – Remarks by Vice President Cheney introducing President Bush for his victory speech, Ronald Reagan Building, November 3, 2004.

President Bush’s margin of victory proves that we “have a narrowly divided country, and that’s not a traditional mandate…the number-one item on my agenda is to try to move the party to the center.” – Sen. Arlen Specter, November 3, 2004.

Senator Arlen Specter's shocking comments the day after President Bush's decisive re-election raise troubling concersn

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Specter denied the legitimacy of President Bush’s historic mandate.

• Specter announced a pro-abortion litmus test for the president’s judicial nominees. Specter claims that Roe v. Wade is “inviolate” and insists that “nobody can be confirmed today who does not agree with it.”
  
  
• Specter’s illegal litmus test would disqualify all constitutionalist nominees from serving on the Supreme Court of the United States and the lower federal courts.
  
  
• Specter’s illegal litmus test demands that all nominees violate the canons of judicial ethics by announcing or pledging how they will vote in a particular case.
  
  
• Specter will not promise to support the President’s nominees. Instead, he merely “hopes” that he can support them. The day after the election, when a reporter asked Specter if he would support the president’s nominees, the senator hesitated and equivocated: “I am hopeful that I’ll be able to do that. That obviously depends upon the president’s judicial nominees. I’m hopeful that I can support them.”
  
  
• Specter criticized President Bush’s first-term judicial nominees: “The nominees whom I supported in committee, I had reservations on.”
  
  
• Specter insulted Janice Rogers Brown, president Bush’s nominee to the important U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Specter referred to Brown, a distinguished conservative and the first African American woman to serve on the California Supreme Court, as “the woman judge out of California” who he had reservations about.
  
  
• Specter insulted the entire Supreme Court of the United States, including Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Scalia and Thomas. When a reporter asked Specter “Are you saying that there is not greatness” on the Supreme Court, Specter replied: “Yes. Can you take yes for an answer?”
  
  
• Specter’s comments reveal that, like Sen. Kerry and Sen. Daschle, Specter favors judges who follow politics and popular opinion, not the Constitution and the rule of law.
  
  
• Specter accused President Bush of ignoring the Senate’s advise and consent role: “The Constitution has a clause called advise and consent, the advise part is traditionally not paid a whole lot of attention to, I wouldn’t say quite ignored, but close to that.”
  
  
• Specter wants to encroach upon the president’s appointment power. Obstructionist Democrats filibustered ten of President Bush’s appeals court nominees. Now Specter wants the Senate to become MORE involved in judicial appointments: “My hope is that the Senate will be more involved in expressing our views.”

Specter's record over the last 20 years demonstrated a pattern of very troubling conduct on Judiciary Committee issues

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  Specter fought against the distinguished Judge Robert H. Bork, betraying President Reagan and his fellow Republicans.
  
  
• Specter voted against Judge Bork on the judiciary committee, and against Bork’s confirmation on the Senate floor. By joining liberal Democratic senators and radical left-wing groups in their opposition to Judge Bork, Specter gave those groups aid and comfort, and was instrumental in Judge Bork’s defeat.
  
  
• Judge Bork warned Americans that Specter does not understand the Constitution and that Specter, along with Senate Democrats “professed horror at the thought that a judge must limit his rulings to the principles in the actual Constitution.”
  
  
• President Ronald Reagan called the left-wing assault against Judge Bork “an unprecedented political attack” on a Supreme Court nominee and “a tragedy for our country.” Specter rebuffed President Reagan’s plea to support Judge Bork.
  
  
• Specter helped defeat the nomination of conservative Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.
  
  
• Specter warned filibustered appeals court nominee William Pryor that just because he voted for him on the committee did not mean that he would vote on the Senate floor for his confirmation.
  
  
• The “National Review” exposed Specter as “The Worst Republican Senator” in a prominent September 1, 2003 cover story. According to “National Review,” Specter “is not a team player…is an abortion rights absolutist, a dogged advocate of racial preferences, a bitter foe of tax reform, a firm friend of the International Criminal Court.”
  
  
• Specter refuses to support the elevation of Justice Clarence Thomas to Chief Justice: “I’d have to think about that,” Specter equivocated. Ditto for Justice Antonin Scalia: “I’d have to think about that too.” Specter once slandered Justice Thomas as a “disappointment.”

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee must be someone devoted to the Constitution as written and the rule of law

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  The situation is urgent. Chief Justice Rehnquist is gravely ill. A Supreme Court vacancy is imminent.
  
  
• President Bush may be called upon to nominate a Supreme Court justice within the next several weeks.
  
  
• Court watchers predict as many as three Supreme Court vacancies during President Bush’s second term.
  
  
• President Bush will likely have a historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalist principles.
  
  
• The President needs as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee a loyal, reliable, conservative partner who will shepherd his nominees through the confirmation process.
  
  
• Under intense political pressure, Specter tried to recant portions of his post-election statements the day after he uttered them. That means nothing. His 20-year record of party disloyalty and tormenting conservative nominees means everything.
  
  
• As chairman, Specter will act as a vexatious intermeddler, second-guessing President Bush’s Supreme Court and lower court nominations. This imperils the President’s legacy.
  
  
• Under the Senate’s seniority rules, Specter is slated to take over the Judiciary Committee, but under Senate rules and procedures, he can be stopped from becoming committee chairman.
  
  
• The window of opportunity to stop Specter is limited. Once he becomes chairman, it will be impossible to unseat him.

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[DanTheAdmin]

Signed!

I still remained puzzled why W supported this RINO...

[trebb]

I sent an email directly to my senator (Trent Lott) asking him to keep Specter out and to do everything in his power to forward the President's agenda. Use the petition, but contact your own senators directly to put extra pressure on...

[cpforlife.org]

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[apackof2]

Already signed bump

[apackof2]

Me too, I suppose it was politics, he had the best chance of winning?

[JesseHousman]

Done!

[JesseHousman]

Keep bumping!!!!!!!!!!!

[Henchman]

We can do it without the additional SPAM, requests for more money etc that will follow the signing. So far, I am getting more pleas from the church asking assistance for Native Americans, Make English the Official Language, Right to Life etc.

The Dems are the party of the poor, therefore they keep the people poor. So too, most of these charities never seem to get the job done... err job, the problem was solved...no job err. why end the problem? There has been quite a buzz without someone trying to make a living off of us.

[jazzlite]

I was away from home for a night and as soon as I walked through the door, my husband, who was furious, said, "We need to contact our congressmen right away to tell them to vote against Specter as chairman of the Judiciary Committee." Then we had a conversation about how even some Republicans in the Washington, D.C., culture may not "get it." Some care more about their influence in that environment than they care about what is good for our nation. Arlen Specter being the Chairman of this committee is NOT good for America and I sincerely hope my congressmen will not vote for him..They will hear from us loud and clear if they do. Their loyalty had better go to their constituents and not to the D.C. culture.

[johniegrad]

Signed!

[DanTheAdmin]

You're right - I guess a RINO is slightly better that a full-blown lefty, but only a little...

[wgeorge2001]

Court watchers predict as many as three Supreme Court vacancies during President Bush’s second term.
President Bush will likely have a historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionality principles.
The President needs as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee a loyal, reliable, conservative partner who will shepherd his nominees through the confirmation process.

As a conservative evangelical Christian who has witnessed the persecution of professing Christians in America by the democrat politicians, it is expedient that all conservatives stand squarely on Constitutional mandates as well as the Republican party platform. Rinos are unacceptable and should be thrown out of office as they generally represent liberals where the rubber meets the road.Specter is one such Rino.

BORK SPECTER BEFORE HE BORKS US!

[wgeorge2001]

Court watchers predict as many as three Supreme Court vacancies during President Bush’s second term.
President Bush will likely have a historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutional principles.
The President needs as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee a loyal, reliable, conservative partner who will shepherd his nominees through the confirmation process.

As a conservative evangelical Christian who has witnessed the persecution of professing Christians in America by the democrat politicians, it is expedient that all conservatives stand squarely on Constitutional mandates as well as the Republican party platform. Rinos are unacceptable and should be thrown out of office as they generally represent liberals where the rubber meets the road.Specter is one such Rino.

BORK SPECTER BEFORE HE BORKS US!

[jazzlite]

Folks, we cannot let up for a minute. We cannot relax in the wake of the mandate the voters gave our party on Tuesday because the left is out there demanding that we share the power with them. We need to use the power the people gave President Bush to secure our nation which is very unstable. The left, including Specter, given power over our courts, will further destabilize us. They have had power and they squandered it trying to drum up support for gay marriage rights and abortion. Senator, two of my Grandchildren, both adopted, are alive because their mothers did not listen to those with your views that they should be aborted as inconvenient. They are wonderful, adorable, vivacious, beautiful, smart and loved just like the biological children in our family. We are eager to see what their talents can contribute to this society. Let the babies live. People like us will take them, love and nuture them, educate them and someday, Senator, one of them might have your seat in government.

[GBA]

I signed that petition! Now I need to make some phone calls.

Rarely have I been so offended by someone as I was by Specter's slap in President Bush's face. It would have been one thing if the President hadn't supported Specter in his primary...then maybe I could understand such a graceless act. But this is far from being the first time Specter has shown his true political color. Bork should have been a Supreme but isn't thanks in large measure to Specter. Specter should be shunned by the Republican party.

[DanTheAdmin]

Your post deserves standing applause.