ASK THESE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO FILIBUSTER
THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION RIGHT IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE !
Sessions (AL), Hatch (UT), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), Graham (SC), Cornyn (TX), and Coburn (OK).
Please call Washington DC Capitol switchboard toll-free and ask for each
of these Senator's offices:
D.C. Capitol Switchboard:
202-224-3121
Toll-free #'s for D.C. Capitol switchboard:
1-866-220-0044
1-866-340-9281
1-888-355-3588
1-800-450-8293
1-877-851-6437
1-877-762-8722
1-877-762-8762
1-800-833-6354
1-866-808-0065
ASK THE OFFICES OF EACH OF THESE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO REQUEST THAT THESE MEN
( Senators Sessions (AL), Hatch (UT), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), Graham (SC), Cornyn (TX), and Coburn (OK) )
COMMIT TO FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION RIGHT IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE !
Please call today Monday, July 12 as soon as possible, and Tuesday morning, July 13, before 10 AM.
Senate Judiciary Committee meeting scheduled for July 13 on Kagan Nomination
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FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION RIGHT IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE:
PLEASE CALL THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS ON THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE,
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND TELL THEM YOU WANT THEM TO FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION RIGHT IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. IF ALL SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS WILL AGREE TO FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, THEN THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION CAN BE BLOCKED.
Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee CANFILIBUSTER AND STOP KAGAN'S CONFIRMATION right in the Senate Judiciary Committee, HOWEVER ONLY IF ALL SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS STAND FIRM AND VOTE AGAINST ENDING DEBATE(cloture) AND BRINGING THE MATTER OF KAGAN'S CONFIRMATION TO A VOTE. Please call the Washington DC offices of these seven Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee as soon as possible on Friday (July 9) and on Monday (July 12 - when the Senators return to Washington, DC after
their break): Sessions (AL), Hatch (UT), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), Graham (SC), Cornyn (TX), and Coburn (OK).
Rules of Procedure United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
IV. BRINGING A MATTER TO A VOTE
[ emphasis added ]
The Chairman shall entertain a non-debatable motion to bring a matter before the Committee to a vote. If there is objection
to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority.
[ CCL Note: i.e., at least ONE REPUBLICAN must be a "Benedict Arnold" and agree to END DEBATE and bring
the substantive matter of the Kagan Confirmation itself to a vote. On the other hand, if all seven Republicans
stand firm and refuse to end debate, then the filibuster of Kagan's Confirmation would continue, BLOCKING
a vote on Kagan's Confirmation. ]
WARNING: DO NOT BE DISSUADED IF A SENATE OFFICE STAFF MEMBER TRIES TO CONVINCE YOU THAT RULE IV. DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE SEVEN REPUBLICANS CAN DEFEAT THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION IF
ALL SEVEN VOTE AGAINST THE NOMINATION. THAT IS TECHNICALLY CORRECT, IF THAT IS ALL THEY DO,
I.E., VOTE 'NO' TO THE CONFIRMATION. HOWEVER, THAT IS WHY JUST VOTING AGAINST THE NOMINATION
IS INSUFFICIENT. WE NEED THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO FILIBUSTER, AND VOTE AGAINST
ENDING DEBATE IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, BEFORE THE ACTUAL VOTE ON KAGAN'S CONFIRMATION, I.E., WE WANT THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LANGUAGE OF RULE IV., WHICH PREVENTS THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION FROM EVEN COMING TO A VOTE,
IF ALL SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS STAND FIRM, AND VOTE AGAINST ENDING DEBATE WHEN RULE IV.
IS INVOKED. HOWEVER, IF EVEN ONE REPUBLICAN CAVES IN AND VOTES TO END DEBATE, AND WITH A DEMOCRAT MAJORITY, DEBATE WOULD END, THE FILIBUSTER WOULD END, AND KAGAN'S NOMINATION WOULD LIKELY THEREFORE BE CONFIRMED IN COMMITTEE, AND GO ON TO THE FULL SENATE FOR CONSIDERATION THERE (WHERE A FILIBUSTER IS STILL AGAIN POSSIBLE).
A TELEPHONE CALL TODAY (July 9) TO THE REPUBLICAN (MINORITY) OFFICE AT THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE (202-224-5225) INITIALLY ENCOUNTERED SOME OBFUSCATORY INFORMATION, BEING TOLD
THAT RULE IV. IS NOT CUSTOMARILY APPLIED TO THE MATTER OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEES. HOWEVER, UPON PRESSING THE MATTER FURTHER, IT WAS REVEALED THAT RULE IV. IS STILL IN EFFECT, AND IF THE REPUBLICANS DECIDE TO FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN NOMINATION IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE,
THAT IS WHEN RULE IV. WOULD COME INTO PLAY, AND YES, IT CAN BE INVOKED IF THERE IS A FILIBUSTER.
IF THERE IS NO FILIBUSTER BY THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS, THEN RULE IV. DOES NOT EVEN COME INTO EFFECT. SO WHAT IS NECESSARY AT THIS MOMENT, IS A PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED PLAN BY THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Sessions (AL), Hatch (UT), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), Graham (SC), Cornyn (TX), and Coburn (OK)to FILIBUSTER AND STAND FIRM NOT TO END THE FILIBUSTER
WHEN RULE IV. IS INVOKED.
WARNING: A TELEPHONE MESSAGE RECEIVED ON JULY 9 FROM A STAFF MEMBER AT THE OFFICE OF
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (RINO-SC) PROVIDED INFORMATION WHICH CONFLICTED WITH
WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE PLAIN READING OF RULE IV., AND THE EXPLANATION PROVIDED
BY A STAFF PERSON AT THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPUBLICAN (MINORITY) OFFICE.
IN PART, THE STAFF PERSON FROM SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM'S OFFICE SAID, "There is the one
interpretation that you espouse, and that some others have espoused. However, that interpretation is counter
to the interpretation that is currently being used, ... " - SO THERE IS CONFLICTING INFORMATION
OBTAINED FROM THESE TWO OFFICES: THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPUBLICAN
(MINORITY) OFFICE, AND THE OFFICE OF SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (RINO-SC). IN THE VIEW
OF THIS WRITER, IN LIGHT OF THE PLAIN READING OF RULE IV. AS POSTED ON THE SENATE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WEBSITE, IT IS THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPUBLICAN
(MINORITY) OFFICE WHICH HAS THE ACCURATE INTERPRETATION OF RULE IV., NOT THE OFFICE
OF SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, AND ON THAT BASIS, THIS CALL TO CONTACT THE SEVEN
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IS BEING MADE, PLEASE:
ASK THESE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION
RIGHT IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE !
FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT WISH TO MAKE THEIR OWN PHONE CALLS TO WASHINGTON, D.C. TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATIION, THE NUMBERS ARE:
Senate Judiciary Committee Minority (Republican) Office - 202-224-5225
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC Office - 202-224-5972
WHEN CALLING THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS OFFICES THEREFORE, DO NOT BE SATISFIED WITH A "The Senator has not decided yet on how he is going to vote" ( as with the office of Senator Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC),
who voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Auguat 6, 2009, is telling callers ); AND DO NOT BE SATISFIED WITH ONLY A "The Senator is going to vote against confirmation for Kagan" ( for example, Orrin Hatch
has already announced he is going to vote against Kagan's confirmation, but that is not good enough, because Orrin Hatch is one of these SEVEN KEY REPUBLICAN SENATORS on the Senate Judiciary Committee. So we need Hatch (UT),and the other six Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee: Sessions (AL), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), Graham (SC), Cornyn (TX), and Coburn (OK), to FILIBUSTER AND STAND FIRM NOT TO END THE FILIBUSTER WHEN RULE IV. IS INVOKED.
SO, THE BOTTOM LINE ISTHAT WE WANT TO PRESS THESE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO FILIBUSTER THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND WHEN RULE IV. IS INVOKED,
WE WANT ALL SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO VOTE AGAINST ENDING DEBATE, IN EFFECT CONTINUING THE FILIBUSTER.
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Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL) Class II
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Please call the seven Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee as soon as possible, today (July 9) and Monday (July 12), and inform them of your request that they FILIBUSTER the Kagan confirmation vote, and when Rule IV. of the Senate Judiciary Committee Rules is invoked to end debate, that all seven Republican Senators stand form against ending debate, and continue to FILIBUSTER and BLOCK the vote on confirmation of Kagan to a lifetime appointment
on the United States Supreme Court.
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Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
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dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273
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WND
Kagan: 'No view on natural rights' - 'Nominee has disqualified herself from Supreme Court'
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK): I'm asking you, Elena Kagan, do you personally believe there is a fundamental right in this area? Do you agree with Blackstone [in] the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense? He didn't say that was a constitutional right. He said that's a natural right. And what I'm asking you is, do you agree with that?
Soliicitor General Elena Kagan: Senator Coburn, to be honest with you, I don't have a view of what are natural rights,
independent of the Constitution. And my job as a justice will be to enforce and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
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World Net Daily
Kagan: 'No view on natural rights'
'Nominee has disqualified herself from Supreme Court'
Posted: July 06, 2010
[emphasis added]
Elena Kagan has disqualified herself from serving on the U.S. Supreme Court with her statement under oath that she has no view of "natural rights," says the man leading aletter-writing campaign to the U.S. Senate.
"In all my years of observing hearings in Washington, I don't think I've ever been more stunned and disappointed
by the testimony of a Supreme Court nominee than I was with Elena Kagan," said Joseph Farah, spearhead of the "Stop Kagan Campaign," which has generated nearly 60,000 letters to members of the Senate. "This is someone, who, from her own testimony, doesn't believe in the Declaration of Independence, which we just celebrated and commemorated this week for the 234th time in our nation's history. This is someone who claims she doesn't have
a view about 'natural rights' – those that real Americans believe are unalienable and God-given."
Farah is asking all of his constituents to join his "Stop Kagan Campaign", which delivers personalized, individuallyaddressed, anti-Kagan letters to all 100 U.S. senators by FedEx for only $24.95.
The statements by Kagan came in an exchange with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Farah said most of the press failed to cover her responses, which he deemed as newsworthy as any she made during the hearings:
Coburn: Do you believe it is a fundamental, pre-existing right to have an arm to defend yourself?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, I very much appreciate how deeply important the right to bear arms is to millions and millions of Americans. And I accept Heller, which made clear that the Second Amendment conferred that right upon individuals, and not simply collectively.
Coburn: I'm asking you, Elena Kagan, do you personally believe there is a fundamental right in this area?
Do you agree with Blackstone [in] the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense? He didn't say that was a constitutional right. He said that's a natural right. And what I'm asking you is, do you agree with that?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, to be honest with you, I don't have a view of what are natural rights, independent of the Constitution. And my job as a justice will be to enforce and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
Coburn: So you wouldn't embrace what the Declaration of Independence says, that we have certain God-given, inalienable rights that aren't given in the Constitution that are ours, ours alone, and that a government doesn't give those to us?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, I believe that the Constitution is an extraordinary document, and I'm not saying I do not believe that there are rights pre-existing the Constitution and the laws. But my job as a justice is to enforce the Constitution and the laws.
Coburn: Well, I understand that. I'm not talking about as a justice. I'm talking about Elena Kagan. What do you believe? Are there inalienable rights for us? Do you believe that?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, I think that the question of what I believe as to what people's rights are outside the Constitution and the laws, that you should not want me to act in any way on the basis of such a belief.
Coburn: I would want you to always act on the basis of the belief of what our Declaration of Independence says.
Kagan: I think you should want me to act on the basis of law. And that is what I have upheld to do, if I'm fortunate enough to be confirmed, is to act on the basis of law, which is the Constitution and the statutes of the United States.
[ CCL Note: This is an example of more deception by judicial activist Elena Kagan - The 1776 Declaration
of Independence is part of the organic law of the United States of America, United States Code
Annotated - ]
continued at:
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Additional Reports:
Republicans in Senate Judiciary Committee CAN Stop Kagan's Confirmation
- The seven Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee canSTOP KAGAN'S CONFIRMATION
by invoking Rule IV. of the Senate Judiciary Committee Rules, and BLOCKING THE VOTE right in the Committee.
- PLEASE CALL THE WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICES OF THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS
ON THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
July 8, 2010
Kagan Hearings Day 3: Kagan: Precedent can [sic] be more important than Original Intent
- (Video) Questions by Senator Cornyn (R-TX), June 30, 2010
Judicial activist Elena Kagan tells Senator Cornyn Precedent can be more important than Original Intent
Kagan Hearings Day 1: (Video) Opening Statement by Senator Sessions (R-AL), June 28, 2010
Senator Sessions summarizes his concerns regarding Obama's SCOTUS nominee, Elena Kagan