No on Alito
[Jon Tester sent the following email to campaign members this morning. To sign up to receive free campaign alerts, click here.]
I wanted to take a moment to share with you my views on the Senate??s upcoming vote to confirm or reject Samuel Alito??s nomination to replace Sandra Day O??Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
After careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the U.S. Senate needs to reject the nomination of Samuel Alito.
There are simply too many reasons to doubt this nomination and not enough reasons to have faith in it.
For example: when applying for a job, Judge Alito made it clear that he disagreed legally with such fundamental Constitutional principles as the right of one person, one vote.
Yet without the fundamental belief in America that we are all created equal under the law, we can have no justice.
I??m also deeply disappointed by Judge Alito??s broken promises to the U.S. Senate. When confirmed to sit on a circuit court, Judge Alito said that he would recuse himself from cases involving certain parties where he had a vested interest. Yet he failed to do that.
Simply put, Samuel Alito is the wrong person for the court, and the wrong person for our country.
Judge Alito was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on a straight party-line vote, which shows just how partisan President Bush??s choice for the Supreme Court really is.
And if Judge Alito becomes the same judge on the Supreme Court that he was on the Court of Appeals, we all could see more government intrusion in our daily lives, broader presidential power without checks and balances, and a reduced right to privacy. And as we Montanans know, we pride ourselves on our constitutional right to privacy.
That??s why we need an independent Supreme Court to:
- — Protect the system of checks and balances that protects the Constitution and our democracy.
- — Protect Americans from a presidential abuse of power.
- — And uphold the rule of law.
That??s why I believe the U.S. Senate needs to reject the nomination of Samuel Alito.
Thank you for your continued support,
Jon Tester
P.S. Please forward this email to your friends and family and ask them to join you in supporting our campaign. They can join for free by visiting: http://www.testerforsenate.com/join/
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006 at 11:21 am. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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‘No’ on Alito
[Jon Tester sent the following email to campaign members this morning. To sign up to receive free campaign alerts, click here.]
I wanted to take a moment to share with you my views on the Senate’s upcoming vote to confirm or reject Samuel Alito’s nomination to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
After careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the U.S. Senate needs to reject the nomination of Samuel Alito.
There are simply too many reasons to doubt this nomination and not enough reasons to have faith in it.
For example: when applying for a job, Judge Alito made it clear that he disagreed legally with such fundamental Constitutional principles as the right of one person, one vote.
Yet without the fundamental belief in America that we are all created equal under the law, we can have no justice.
I’m also deeply disappointed by Judge Alito’s broken promises to the U.S. Senate. When confirmed to sit on a circuit court, Judge Alito said that he would recuse himself from cases involving certain parties where he had a vested interest. Yet he failed to do that.
Simply put, Samuel Alito is the wrong person for the court, and the wrong person for our country.
Judge Alito was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on a straight party-line vote, which shows just how partisan President Bush’s choice for the Supreme Court really is.
And if Judge Alito becomes the same judge on the Supreme Court that he was on the Court of Appeals, we all could see more government intrusion in our daily lives, broader presidential power without checks and balances, and a reduced right to privacy. And as we Montanans know, we pride ourselves on our constitutional right to privacy.
That’s why we need an independent Supreme Court to:
- Protect the system of checks and balances that protects the Constitution and our democracy.
- Protect Americans from a presidential abuse of power.
- And uphold the rule of law.
That’s why I believe the U.S. Senate needs to reject the nomination of Samuel Alito.
Thank you for your continued support,
Jon Tester
P.S. Please forward this email to your friends and family and ask them to join you in supporting our campaign. They can join for free by visiting: http://www.testerforsenate.com/join/
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006 at 11:19 am.
