Support the Filibuster—Defeat Alito!

January 28, 2006

Click here for updated list of Senators to call

After all your calls, emails and action, two senators are taking the lead in defeating ultra-conservative Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) are organizing the filibuster of Judge Alito and they need the support of 39 other senators in order to block a straight up or down vote.

Please make as many phone calls as you can before Monday at 4:30pm, when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will call for a vote to end debate on Alito. Of the self-proclaimed women's rights supporters in the Senate, more are announcing public support for the filibuster every hour. Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein have just signed on in support, and more of those who have offered private support need to give it publicly. Others are on the fence, and need to hear from us that their support for women's rights is hollow unless they back the filibuster and vote NO on cloture.

NOW has put together a list of senators (self-described women's rights supporters) who need our firm encouragement to come out publicly and join the filibuster (and some, like Chafee and Snowe, haven't even said they'll vote NO on the nomination!).

Remember, without a filibuster, Judge Alito WILL be confirmed. In a straight up or down vote, we need 51 "NO" votes to defeat Alito, but in a filibuster, we need only 41 votes to block Frist's effort to end debate.

We've asked for a lot from you over the last few months, and together we've made great progress—just a week ago a filibuster seemed out of the question! Now that we've come this close, we need your help with this final push. If Judge Alito takes a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court—replacing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor—all of our hard-fought rights are in danger.

Please call one or more of the Senators below, especially if you live in their state (click on the Senator's name for district office numbers). Please share this alert widely and ask friends to join the fight!

If there is no answer at the 202 number below, click on the link to find local office telephone numbers.

Senators to call: 

Mark Pryor (D- AR)	202-224-2353
Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D- AR)	202-224-4843
Ken Salazar (D- CO)	202-224-5852
Joseph I. Lieberman (D- CT)	202-224-4041
Thomas R. Carper (D- DE)	202-224-2441
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D- DE)	202-224-5042
Bill Nelson (D- FL)	202-224-5274
Daniel K. Akaka (D- HI)	202-224-6361
Daniel K. Inouye (D- HI)	202-224-3934
Tom Harkin (D- IA)	202-224-3254
Evan Bayh (D- IN)	202-224-5623
Barbara A. Mikulski (D- MD)	202-224-4654
Carl Levin (D- MI)	202-224-6221
Max Baucus (D- MT)	202-224-2651
Byron L. Dorgan (D- ND)	202-224-2551
Robert Menendez (D- NJ)	202-224-4744
Frank Lautenberg (D- NJ)	202-224-3224
Jeff Bingaman (D- NM)	202-224-5521
Lincoln D. Chafee (R- RI)	202-224-2921
Patrick J. Leahy (D- VT)	202-224-4242
Maria Cantwell (D- WA)	202-224-3441
Patty Murray (D- WA)	202-224-2621
Herb Kohl (D- WI)	202-224-5653
John D. Rockefeller, IV (D- WV)	202-224-6472