[NOW Action List] Roberts Confirmed: Tell Your Senators What You Think

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All NOW Actions Save the Court		Roberts Confirmed: Tell Your Senators What You Think Contribute! Help NOW organize activists in key states to prevent another ultra-conservative Bush nominee from taking a seat on the Supreme Court. The votes are in and, despite all our hard work, the Senate has confirmed John G. Roberts as the new Chief Justice of the United States. The Supreme Court will now be led by a right-wing conservative for the next 30-40 years! Please write to both your senators NOW and express your thanks if they voted for women's rights (and against confirming Roberts) or your disappointment or outrage if they voted for him. A meager 22 senators did the right thing and voted against putting this opponent of our rights on the high court. We cannot let this happen with George W. Bush's next nominee, who could tip the court far to the right by replacing swing-vote Sandra Day O'Connor. Let your senators know that you are watching their votes carefully, and that we will remember when they come up for re-election. For those of you with senators who profess to support women's rights but voted for Roberts anyway, please make sure your letters are particularly strong. Tell these senators that you will have their "yes" votes in mind each and every time Roberts presides over a decision that restricts or reverses our rights and that you will hold them accountable each time our rights are curtailed. Background Every senator who voted to confirm John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court should have known better. Roberts avoided answering the majority of questions posed to him by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Bush administration refused to release thousands of pages of documents from Roberts' tenure as Principal Deputy Solicitor General under the first President Bush-no doubt because they would have given even more evidence of his anti-women and anti-civil rights views. In documents that were released-briefs and memos Roberts wrote while working in the Reagan administration-Roberts demonstrated not only an aversion, but a real disdain for many of the issues that are at the heart of the advances we've made in the past 30 years: affirmative action, Title IX equal educational opportunities, constitutional protections against sex discrimination and sexual harassment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the separation of church and state, and our right to personal privacy and reproductive rights. In his writings, Roberts was downright dismissive of people who stand up for their own rights and the rights of others, with the cavalier attitude of one whose rights have always been guaranteed. Send your letter NOW to your senators ? they must know that we are watching their votes, on this and future nominees.
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