She says: “Urge Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter to hold hearings into the President’s conduct, before beginning Supreme Court nomination hearings for Judge Alito – sign my petition today!”
No Alito hearings until george is investigated!
I’ve seen cite the number of signatures on her online polls on the floor of the Senate, so this is important. Only about 34,000 have signed as of now.
The text of the petition and a link after the jump.
Here’s what she’s asking you to sign:
We, the undersigned Americans, urge you to hold thorough public hearings into the program of secret, warrant-less wiretaps authorized by President Bush since 2001. Congress must act to thoroughly investigate the President’s actions now.
Clearly, protecting Americans from terrorism here at home must be the top priority of any Administration. But we certainly can do that without trampling on the Constitution in the process. Defending America means protecting our homeland as well as preserving our very rights and freedoms as citizens.
That’s why Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978, to protect national security while still preserving civil liberties. Why did President Bush consciously choose to violate federal law, even though the Act clearly states that FISA “shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance…and the interception of domestic wire and oral communications may be conducted”?
This egregious and repeated violation of American civil liberties by President Bush and his Administration requires a thorough Congressional investigation. That’s why we urge you to hold hearings before you take up Judge Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Sign the petition and give your country an early Fitzmas gift!
and his henchmen. Let’s help Barbara Boxer hold their feet to the fire.
Signed and sent. Thanks for the tip-off!
Thanks for the link. Petition is signed.
Done!
My Senator rocks! Gotta love this woman. She has the biggest set of cajones in the Senate. Ok…maybe Feingold is a second. Signed, sealed dileverd baby!
“She has the biggest set of cajones in the Senate.”
🙂 Sen. Boxer has the biggest set of “boxes” [cajones]in the Senate. 🙂
Cojones means balls.
I was being snarky. I have no doubt what cajones “means”. I am saying the majority of the Senate which are men Don’t have any. Get it?
cAjones and cOjones.Are you refering to boxes or balls?
Signed with pleasure.
Thanks very much for the link!
i posted this at action alerts.
http://actionalert.blogspot.com/2005/12/anti-alito-brigade-for-justice-day-11.html
if you’d like to post there, shoot me your email in a reply for an invite.
Just sent you an email. Maybe we can get on a roll!
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WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) Dec. 23 — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps for national security when he worked at the Reagan Justice Department, an echo of President Bush’s rationale for spying on U.S. residents in the war on terror.
Then an assistant to the solicitor general, Alito wrote a 1984 memo that provided insights on his views of government powers and legal recourse — seen now through the prism of Bush’s actions — as well as clues to the judge’s understanding of how the Supreme Court operates.
The National Archives released the memo and scores of other documents related to Alito on Friday; the Associated Press had requested the material under the Freedom of Information Act. The memo comes as Bush is under fire for secretly ordering domestic spying of suspected terrorists without a warrant.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he would ask Alito about the president’s authority at confirmation hearings beginning Jan. 9. The memos released today prompted committee Democrats to signal that they will press the conservative jurist about executive powers.
The memo dealt with whether government officials should have blanket protection from lawsuits when authorizing wiretaps. “I do not question that the attorney general should have this immunity,” Alito wrote. “But for tactical reasons, I would not raise the issue here.”
Despite Alito’s warning that the government would lose, the Reagan administration took the fight to the Supreme Court in the case of whether Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, could be sued for authorizing a warrantless domestic wiretap to gather information about a suspected terrorist plot.
The FBI had received information about a conspiracy to destroy utility tunnels in Washington and to kidnap Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser, to protest the Vietnam War.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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