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Please Ask Your Republican Senator to Oppose Senator Arlen Specter as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Specter's prospects of becoming Chairman of the Judiciary Committee are growing slim. Please help in this effort. Below is a list of Republican senators. If your Senator is on the list, call today and ask him or her to oppose Senator Specter's election as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Below the list of Republican Senators are reasons why Senator Specter should be opposed. Please take the time to read them... Then Please make the Call! CALL TODAY! List of Republican Senators • Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK) (202) 224-6665 • Sen. Ted Stevens (AK) (202) 224-3004 • Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL) (202) 224-4124 • Sen. Richard Shelby (AL) (202) 224-5744 • Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ) (202) 224-4521 • Sen. John McCain (AZ) (202) 224-2235 • Sen. Wayne Allard (CO) (202) 224-5941 • Sen.-Elect Mel Martinez (FL) 202-224-3121 • Sen. Saxby Chambliss (GA) (202) 224-3521 • Sen.-Elect Johnny Isakson (GA) 202-224-3121 • Sen. Chuck Grassley (IA) (202) 224-3744 • Sen. Larry Craig (ID) (202) 224-2752 • Sen. Michael Crapo (ID) (202) 224-6142 • Sen.. Richard Lugar (IN) (202) 224-4814 • Sen. Sam Brownback (KS) (202) 224-6521 • Sen. Pat Roberts (KS) (202) 224-4774 • Sen. Jim Bunning (KY) (202) 224-4343 • Sen. Mitch McConnell (202) 224-2541 • Sen.-Elect David Vitter (LA) 202-224-3121 • Sen. Susan Collins (ME) (202) 224-2523 • Olympia Snowe (ME) (202) 224-5344 • Sen. Norm Coleman (MN) (202) 224-5641 • Sen. Christopher Bond (MO) (202) 224-5721 • Sen. Jim Talent (MO) (202) 224-6154 • Sen. Thad Cochran (MS) (202) 224-5054 • Sen. Trent Lott (MS) (202) 224-6253 • Conrad Burns (MT) (202) 224-2644 • Sen.-Elect Richard Burr (NC) (202) 224-3121 • Sen Elizabeth Dole (NC) (202) 224-6342 • Sen. Chuck Hagel (NE) (202) 224-4224 • Sen. Judd Gregg (NH) (202) 224-3324 • Sen. John Sununu (NH) (202) 224-2841 • Sen. Pete Domenici (NM) (202) 224-6621 • Sen. John Ensign (NV) (202) 224-6244 • Sen. Mike DeWine (OH) (202) 224-2315 • Sen. George Voinovich (OH) (202) 224-3353 • Sen.-Elect Tom Coburn (OK) (202) 224-3121 • Sen. James Inhofe (OK) (202) 224-4721 • Sen. Gordon Smith (OR) (202) 224-3753 • Sen. Rick Santorum (PA) (202) 224-6324 • Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RI) (202) 224-2921 • Sen.-Elect Jim DeMint (SC) (202) 224-3121 • Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) (202) 224-5972 • Sen.-Elect John Thune (SD) (202) 224-3121 • Sen. Lamar Alexander (TN) (202) 224-4944 • Sen. Bill Frist (TN) (202) 224-3344 • Sen. John Cornyn (TX) (202) 224-2934 • Sen. Kay Hutchison (TX) (202) 224-5922 • Sen. Robert Bennett (UT) (202) 224-5444 • Sen. Orrin Hatch (UT) (202) 224-5251 • Sen. George Allen (VA) (202) 224-4024 • Sen. John Warner (VA) (202) 224-2023 • Sen. Craig Thomas (WY) (202) 224-6441 • Sen. Michael Enzi (WY) (202) 224-3424 What was the Mandate? "I don't think a 51-49 election is any mandate…they need to be very careful that they now need to govern from the middle in a bipartisan way." —Terry McAuliffe, chairman, DNC, 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 Sepcter's Shocking Comments The Day After President Bush's Decisive Re-election Raise Troubling Concerns.
• 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 Demonstrates A Pattern Of Very Troubling Conduct On Judiciary Committee Issues
• 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. • If Specter remained faithful to his president and his party, Judge Bork would almost certainly have been confirmed to the Supreme Court. Specter's opposition doomed him. • 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
• 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. • As chairman, Specter will have control over the committee's staff, agenda, and schedule, giving him great power to obstruct the confirmation of conservative judges. • 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.
Please forward this to your friends and family. Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon Founder and Chairman American Family Association
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