This article was posted from AP this morning:
Democrats Try to Slow Alito Confirmation. It appears that Reid, may the gods bless him, is trying to buy us an extra week to get our collective acts together and better organize to oppose ScAlito.
Democrats argue that the former Reagan administration lawyer is likely to tip the court's balance to the right in replacing centrist Sandra Day O'Connor. But with little success so far peeling away Alito's support to be the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice, the Democrats were noncommittal about trying to mount a filibuster on the Senate floor.
Instead, they are seeking to slow Alito's ascension by demanding that the Judiciary Committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., delay the panel's vote a week.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid "is urging all Democrats to refrain from committing to a vote either for or against confirmation prior to the caucus next Wednesday," Reid spokesman Jim Manley said.
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Please take a moment to
let Reid know he has your support in this. Please let
both your senators know that you support this action, as well. And please spend an hour or two over the weekend preparing your faxes and talking to your family and friends about making calls, sending faxes, etc.
This is it, friends. By NOT fighting this appointment to the court, we are accepting warrantless wiretaps and warrantless strip searches of children. We are accepting the torture of children. We are risking both our citizenship and our right to representation. The activists among us are to be deemed criminals, so we can collectively kiss our 1st admendment goodbye. Individual rights will be even more quickly forfeited to corporate profit than they have been in recent years. And our children will quite likely not have clean air or water to offer their children.
Oh, yeah, we will also be losing the right to choose to have those children.