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Senate Republicans are expected to invoke the “nuclear option”—an attempt to end the right to filibuster extremist judicial nominees. This unprecedented power grab would hand the White House and its Senate allies the unchecked ability to pack federal courts with out-of-the-mainstream judges. It’s an undemocratic effort to seat anti-worker, anti-rights judges in our highest courts—and we have to stop it now.

Please send your senators the message below—it will take only a moment. If we fail to act, here’s how the “nuclear option” will happen:

To provoke a filibuster, Republicans would move to confirm one of President Bush’s most controversial nominees—maybe Janice Rogers Brown, nominee for the District of Columbia Circuit, who calls Social Security “cannibalization” by senior citizens. Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist then would ask the chair—most likely Vice President Dick Cheney—to rule that filibusters cannot be used for judicial nominations. Democrats would try to overturn Cheney’s ruling, but they are in the minority in the Senate and would need a majority—51 votes—to prevail. Then, we could kiss our right to fight for a balanced judiciary goodbye.

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