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What you can do about the U.S. Supreme Court.

The July Fourth holiday will soon be over in the US, and it'll be time to get back to the political battle over who will replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Wondering what you can do to help keep a neanderthal off the highest federal court?

Whatever happens with the Supreme Court nomination battle that is about to ensue, it's going to happen fast. Here are some things you can do right now:

• If you have a cell phone, sign up for People at the American Way's Mass Immediate Response site. This way, you'll be able to receive text message action items instantly as events break. (If you signed up during the nuclear option fight, you'll need to re-sign up.)

• Also sign up with the Save the Court, another PFAW website devoted specifically to this issue.

• Recruit friends and family members to the cause.

• Write to the President, telling him he should choose a consensus candidate to replace O'Connor.

• Contact your Senators to tell them the same thing.

• Sign MoveOn's "Protect Our Rights" petition.

• Contact members of the media and tell them you think Bush should nominate a consensus candidate. PLEASE be polite, be brief (200 words or less), and don't do copy-and-paste jobs — put things in your own words.

If you have a blog, please post these action items on your site. If you don't, e-mail them to your like-minded friends and relatives so that they will help spread the word.

Via TalkLeft, who got it from DavidNYC at Daily Kos.

Posted by Magpie at July 4, 2005 01:52 PM | US Politics | Technorati links |