Call, email, or fax your senator and ask them to vote no on the nomination of Alito to the Supreme Court.
Why?
If you value your freedom, you will not want Alito's brand of justice setting the course for America. Alito favors the "big guy" 85% of the time. If you are a private individual opposing a corporation, or the government, you will lose most of the time. Alito will pick some legal technicality that gives the case to the "big guy." If your lawyer files a poor brief on your behalf, you will lose. If Alito feels that a jury should not decide your case, you lose your day in court.
More than Roe v. Wade is at stake. Alito believes in the “unitary president.” Even though some apologists have stated this means that we have only one president at a time, don't be fooled. The unitary president theory is held by those who believe that the president should not have any oversight. Also, they believe that the president can add signing statements to bills from the congress he approves. These signing statements are the president's interpretation of the law in the bill. The Constitution explicitly states that the Judiciary interprets the law, not the president, or Congress.
If the president can add a signing statement to a law, he can change that law to mean anything he chooses. If you don't think that the president would not use this power, think again. Even without the powers of the unitary presidency, Bush's interpretation of the war powers Congress gave him includes the power to wire-tap anyone. All constitutional scholars that I have heard, state that Bush is wrong and the law he is breaking is in FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Currently, Bush has the power to declare anyone as an enemy combatant and send them off to a prison on foreign soil without any access to any legal representation. With no constitutional legal protections, this person can remain in prison forever, or until the president feels enough time has been spent or enough information has been extracted.
We still have time to put a limit on the president's power. Tell all your friends and relatives that Alito is not just a conservative, tell them that Alito is so far out that even some Republicans are upset about the nomination.
The time to act is now. Block Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court even if this means to support a filibuster to get the public to realize this person will move America in the wrong direction for generations.
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