NARAL PRO-CHOICE NEW JERSEY SUPPORTS
SENATORS CORZINE AND LAUTENBERG AS THEY OPPOSE THE "NUCLEAR OPTION"
Pro-choice advocacy group mobilizes activists across the state to
disarm dangerous power grab by far right.
(May 23, 2005) – NARAL Pro-Choice New Jersey, the state's leading advocate of personal privacy and a woman's right to choose, has shifted into high gear in its efforts to disarm the “nuclear option.” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has indicated that a vote on this unprecedented abuse of power will take place before the end of the week.
NARAL Pro-Choice New Jersey supports Senators Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg as they stand up for the fair, independent judiciary envisioned by nation’s founders and oppose this effort by the far right to radically restructure the nation’s courts.
“President Bush and Senator Frist are preparing an unprecedented rules change that would reduce the U.S. Senate to a mere rubber stamp for President Bush’s plan to push out-of-touch, radical judicial nominees into lifetime appointments,” said Laurie Lowenstein, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice New Jersey. “We support Senators Corzine and Lautenberg as they work to maintain historic checks and balances to protect individual freedom.”
NARAL Pro-Choice has educated local voters on the tradition of the filibuster and the need for a fair and truly independent judiciary.
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Contact: Jennifer Miller, Director of Organizing, 609.581.7171
