Political update!

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Demand Alito not be confirmed.

Don't let him make the laws. He doesn't deserve to have that kind of power, based on his past decisions.

Support the McCain amendment.

Directed at stopping torture, it's especially relevant right now thanks to the 'extraordinary rendition' case of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped during a vacation and transported, or “rendered,” to Afghanistan where he was drugged, beaten and held in secret for five months.

Comments

[horntotingmania.livejournal.com]

Darn, I wish you posted this before. One of the questions on my poli sci quiz was the word for sending US captured "terrorists" to our prisons in other countries, ie rendition. I wrote "torture outsourcing." Harhar.

[xinda.livejournal.com]

Just saying, for anyone who clicks the first link, you can click the picture from that link given here and it takes you directly to a petition, which I believe is what that link is for.

[greyhawk.livejournal.com]

Don't let him make the laws. He doesn't deserve to have that kind of power, based on his past decisions.

I honestly don't know enough about this particular nominee (if Bush's LAST nominee was any indication...ugh), but a key thing here...don't let ANY of the Supreme Court Justices make the laws! That's not their job. Their only job is to interperate the constitutionality of laws and to interperate their application. The House and the Senate make the laws. The Constitution even says that anything not covered by the constitution is entirely and 100% up to the individual states. The Court getting involved in those areas where there isn't a possible violation of constitutional rights is the court overstepping its bounds. It'd be like Bush slipping something through and making a law that could potentially hit people's rights and then says they can't challenge it...

Oh wait...that did happen.