Defeat Obama's court-packing scheme

From The National Right To Work Committee:

Your pressure is working.

This week, as your faxed petitions and phone calls poured into Senate offices, the Senate Republican Minority -- minus Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine -- held firm and voted not to cut off debate on the second of Barack Obama's three nominees to pack the nation's second most powerful court.

I'm hopeful if we keep up the pressure, we'll defeat Barack Obama's court-packing scheme.

But the threats to break the Senate rules and gut the filibuster are growing.

"I think we're at the point where there will have to be a rules change," union-label Senator Patrick Leahy fumed after the most recent vote.

Big Labor ally Senator Dianne Feinstein added, "I've always thought that a president deserved his team."

That's precisely what's at stake -- judges aren't a part of the President's "team".

While the President is entitled to nominate judges, it is the Senate's duty to review those nominations and ensure the integrity and independence of the courts.

Make no mistake, this is all about Barack Obama seeking revenge against the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for rebuking his unconstitutional "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The constitutional separation of powers cannot survive long if a President -- any President -- is allowed to go on a court-packing binge any time he doesn't like one of the Court's decisions.

With a third vote looming, we must keep the heat on the entire U.S. Senate, especially if Harry Reid renews his threats to gut the filibuster.

Remember, once they gut the filibuster for judicial nominations, it's only a matter of time before they try to end minority rights in the Senate for good by gutting the filibuster for all legislation, paving the way to ram through Big Labor's wishlist of power grabs.

Card Check Forced Unionism. Police/Fire Monopoly Bargaining. Eliminating all state Right to Work laws at once by repealing Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act.

The Obama Administration has done enough damage to worker freedom through the federal bureaucracy.

The courts have stopped some of those forced-unionism power grabs. That will get even harder if Big Labor apologists take over the courts too.

Thank you for all you are doing to help in these critical fights.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. Barack Obama wants revenge against the nation's second most powerful court for ruling his "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.

Your pressure has kept Harry Reid from ramming through the first two of Barack Obama's three nominees to pack the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the threats are growing to gut the filibuster.

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