SPECTER ENDORSEMENTS ROLL IN...

National Review Online ^ | 11/8/04 | KJL

[GeneralHavoc]

From Republicans for Choice (joining Hugh Hewitt?!!--what's wrong with this picture?): Dear Friend of Choice,

Please help to counter the anti-choice activist groups efforts to derail Senator Arlen Specter from becoming Judiciary Committee Chair.

Please forward this alert on to friends of yours that want to have federal and Supreme Court Justices that are going to be fair and uphold the current law of the land on a woman's right to choose!

In other words, Justices in the tradition of Anthony Kennedy, or Sandra Day O'Connor who wrote the majority opinion in Casey vs. Planned Parenthood (1992) where she said that "in order for women to participate equally in today's society a woman must have the ability to control her own body"... rather than Judges like Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) is a moderate, pro-choice supporting Republican in line for the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Last week he "bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation," reports the AP.

Specter helped defeat President Reagan's nomination of the rabidly anti-choice Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, and of the anti-choice 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.

The anti-choice activist groups are having a cow. The Concerned Women for America sent out an alert, urging people to call and email Republican Senators asking them to prevent Specter from being chair of the Judiciary committee...

[Walkingfeather]

Okay screw what I said and moderation ..... SINK THIS GUY!

[Weirdad]

Bump!

[GeronL]

Spectre.. why is he still in this party??

[A.A. Cunningham]

Kathryn needs to keep the pressure on Hewitt.

[bayourod]

TEXANS: Senator Cornyn told the AP that he he was waiting to see where Specter stood.

Senator Cornyn, a convert from the Democrat party, and a member of the Judiciary Committee, apparently doesn't know about Specter's pro abortion advocacy.. Call him and educate him.

[Clemenza]

I know this may sound trivial, but I've always wondered what KJ Lopez looks like.

Happy to see her holding the GOP's feet to the fire on the Spector that is haunting America.

[Palladin]

From Planned Parenthood:

Current Campaign
Protect Our Courts and Moderate Republican Voices

Right-wing conservatives are demanding that Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) be prevented from chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee because of published comments regarding likely anti-choice Supreme Court nominees. Specter remarked in a press conference on Wednesday that nominees who would attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade would be too conservative to be confirmed.

Speak out today to protect our courts from extremist judicial nominees and the demands of anti-choice hardliners.

http://www.ppaction.org/ppaction/home.html

[Keith in Iowa]

I'm pro choice...

But I think the time for choosin' is while you still got yer knickers on.

After that, you should be held accountable for your actions. And if your actions result in conception, a choice at that point ought not be killing the unborn child. You get married, raise the kid, or have the kid and go it alone, or there's that thing called 'adoption'. Abortion as a post-coital birth control method is simply wrong.

That said, I realize that there are medically justifiable reasons that an abortion may be a viable choice - and in those cases, the doctor and patient should have the ability to select the course of action that's best for the patient - and those decisions are none of my business.

[nightdriver]

Sandra Day O'Connor.....said that "in order for women to participate equally in today's society a woman must have the ability to control her own body"

How many times do we have to tell these ignorami that a baby is not, I say again not a part of a woman's body. The DNA is even different.

The fact that it is not a part of the woman's body is the reason her body "rejects" this foreign object living insede her and birth occurs.

[WOSG]

I'm from Texas and I don't believe your statement ... "Senator Cornyn, a convert from the Democrat party"

is accurate.

" and a member of the Judiciary Committee, apparently doesn't know about Specter's pro abortion advocacy.. Call him and educate him"

been there done that.

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RGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT
November 8, 2004

Ask Texas Senators To Oppose Pro-Abortion Senator Arlen Specter's Election to Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee



Summary

Pro-abortion U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) is in line to become the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. All of President Bush's appointments for federal judges, including justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, must receive the approval of that committee before being considered by the full Senate for confirmation. Senator Specter is a vocal supporter of legal abortion, and would have the power to kill the appointment of any nominee who does not support Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court used Roe v. Wade as the basis for striking down state laws banning the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure.



But Senator Specter's election to chair that committee can be stopped if enough people contact their senators.



Please immediately contact Texas' two U.S. Senators -- Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn -- and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist by phone and by email. Ask them to vote against Senator Specter. See below for contact information.

Sample Message

These are sample messages; please use your own words.



Phone: "Hello, my name is __________________. I live in (city) , Texas. Please ask Senator _________________ to vote against Senator Specter for chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Thank you."



Email: "Dear Senator ____________. Please vote against Senator Arlen Specter for the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Include your name, street address, and email address)."

Contact Information

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

(District Offices -- please call the office nearest to you.)



East Texas (Tyler), 903-593-0902

Central Texas (Austin), 512-469-6034

North Texas (Dallas), 972-239-1310

Southeast Texas (Houston), 713-572-3337

South Central Texas/El Paso (San Antonio), 210-224-7485

South Texas Region (Harlingen), 956-423-0162

West Texas Office (Lubbock), 806-472-7533



Email: visit www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact/index.html

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)

(District Offices -- please call the office nearest to you.)



Abilene, 325-676-2839

Austin, 512-916-5834

Dallas, 214-361-3500

Harlingen, 956-425-2253

Houston, 713-653-3

San Antonio, 210-340-2885



Email: visit www.hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN)

Washington, D.C., 202-224-3344



Email: visit www.frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm

Background

It is likely that President Bush will have the opportunity to nominate two or more justices of the U.S. Supreme Court during the next four years. Pro-abortion advocacy groups are vowing to do everything in their power to block the President's nominees in the Senate. There has not been a vacancy on the Court for over 10 years, but in recent weeks the press has reported that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is seriously ill.

When President Bush nominates someone to the Supreme Court, that nomination goes first to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which conducts hearings and votes on the nomination. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee will be crucial in shepherding the President's nominees to successful confirmation votes in the committee and in the full Senate.

Soon, the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee must decide on who they want as their chairman. By seniority, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) is first in line.

Specter would be a disaster as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Senator Specter has a strongly pro-abortion record, and he is one of the leading champions of human cloning. In 1987, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, Specter played a key role in defeating President Reagan's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, who was on record in opposition to Roe v. Wade. In 1995, Specter briefly sought the Republican presidential nomination on a pro-abortion platform. In January 2001, Specter complained on a TV program that some nominees for the Supreme Court were reluctant to take clear positions on Roe v. Wade, and he said that he might have to start withholding his support in such cases.

On November 3, 2004, the day after the election, Specter told reporters that he considers Roe v. Wade "inviolate," and indicated that he believes that nominees who do not express support for that ruling cannot be confirmed. Asked if he would support President Bush's judicial nominees, Specter replied, "That obviously depends upon the president's judicial nominees."

On November 4, those remarks were widely reported in the news media as a "warning" to the White House. The same day, Specter issued a statement saying that he had been warning of possible filibusters by Democrats -- but he did not pledge to support President Bush's nominations to the Supreme Court.

If another Republican member of the committee decides to challenge Specter and gains the support of a majority of Republican members of the committee, the decision would go before the all of the Republican senators who will serve beginning in January. In that case, the 55 Republican senators would decide who will be chairman by a secret ballot.

[Dahoser]

Spectre.. why is he still in this party??

Because the White House inexplicably chose him over Pat Toomey. (And, of course, those pesky Scottish voters keep re-electing him.)

[ChildofReagan]

He's a has-been. Take him out and replace him. He'll continue to footsy with Biden, just as always.

[ChildofReagan]

He's Jewish, isn't he?

So, what's the Scots connection?

[GeneralHavoc]

GRASSROOTSPA CALL TO ACTION

STOP SPECTER FROM BLOCKING BUSH'S JUDGES

Contact Senator Frist
202-224-3135

Contact Senator Santorum
202-224-6324

Tell them in no uncertain terms that Specter cannot be made Senate Judiciary Chairman

Do NOT take "no" for an answer!

Bush has no Mandate?

Just say "NO" To Specter's Games!

Senate Judiciary Committee GOP 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 Cornyn
202-224-2934

[Palladin]

Specter invoked some obscure Scottish law to excuse himself from voting for he impeachment of Bill Clinton.

[Dahoser]

He's Jewish, isn't he?

So, what's the Scots connection?

See, Impeachment, Sham Senate Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, Voting.

It was Senator Spector who couldn't rise above his RINOness and bring himself to cast a guilty vote against Bill Clinton, so he cited Scottish law to vote Not Proven, which in the US Senate means diddly, and, therefore, not guilty.

[JSteff]

"The anti-choice activist groups"

Why not the pro-life activist groups, or the anti-abortion activist groups.

Does someone have a bit of bias here? They could not call them either of the two I mentioned because it would show the "pro-choice as what they are....

Baby killers.

[trueamerica]

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, October 24, 2004:

The best argument for his staying on is his seniority, which puts him in line to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In that capacity, he would be in a position to block some of the ideologically extreme federal judges likely to be nominated by President Bush in a second term, some of them for the Supreme Court. Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench.

From Bucks County Courier Times, October 17, 2004:

Specter said he does use his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee - a panel he will probably begin chairing next year if re-elected - to weed out judges who are extreme. He points to Robert Bork, a Ronald Reagan nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. "I not only voted against Bork, I led the charge against him," Specter said.
 

[radicalamericannationalist]

I should thank Specter for bringing us together on this issue, B. Thanks, Arlen. Now don't let the doorway hit you on the way out.