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Sign the Petition to President Obama

President Obama will soon nominate a new Supreme Court justice now that Justice David Souter has announced his retirement from the Court.

Please SIGN OUR PETITION urging him to name another woman like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is a proven advocate for equality and fair treatment under the Constitution.

Ginsburg said she can't help but wonder what people think when they visit the Court and see only one woman out of the nine justices. "There I am all alone, and it doesn't look right," said Ginsburg, noting that women bring a life experience to the court that men can't.

President George W. Bush appointed two of the most conservative justices on the Court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, and both have proven to be exactly what women's rights and civil rights groups predicted. Under Roberts and Alito, the Supreme Court denied Lilly Ledbetter justice for a lifetime of pay discrimination, and rolled back the decades-old Roe v. Wade guarantee that abortion restrictions could not jeopardize the life and health of the woman. Justice Ginsburg warned in her dissent, "The Court's hostility to the right Roe and Casey secured is not concealed."

Please help balance the scales of justice by nominating a woman who stands for equality and justice to join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

Encourage your friends to sign, too -- NOW will hand deliver every 10,000 signatures to the White House.

Sign the Petition to President Obama

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