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This campaign needs $275,000 to run ads in the states that matter most.
We are doing everything possible in these last days before the election to make sure voters in battleground states realize the impact their vote for President will have on the future of the Supreme Court!
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ELECTION 2004 25 DAYS AWAY
Dear Friends:
Although Election Day is 25 short days away, early voting has already begun in many states.
We need your help in our final push to Election Day to get the message out.
Four more years, or, 40 more years? Vote to protect a Supreme Court that will protect you.
With the election sure to be extremely close, it's critically important we reach as many voters as possible. We need your help.
Let's do whatever it takes to spread the word: This November, vote like your rights depend on it. They do.
Our efforts are working - let's continue the push! People For the American Way experts and activists have been talking to journalists nationwide about the future of the Court. This Tuesday, the ultra-conservative Washington Times proclaimed in a headline that the election would be a "Rare Chance to Tip the Court," and a USA Today headline read, "Ballots May Tip Bench." Our volunteers and activists are distributing thousands of reports, leaflets, posters, and buttons on the future of the Supreme Court to voters nationwide.
Threats To Civil Liberties
Your vote for President in November will help determine the fate of free speech and other civil liberties, especially in the post-9/11 era, for the next 40 years or more.
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Two more justices voting with Scalia and Thomas would have reversed the Court's 2004 decision that detainees at Guantanamo can present claims challenging their indefinite detention in federal court. Justice Thomas would even have upheld indefinite detention of U.S. citizens on American soil without any rights.
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Justice Scalia has stated that most of our rights "go way beyond what the Constitution requires," and has chillingly suggested that in wartime, it can be expected that rights will be "ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum." A Scalia-Thomas majority would also restrict freedom of artistic _expression.
Click here to read more about threats to civil liberties
Let's ensure the Court will defend our constitutional rights.
Voters may have different views on these specific issues, but it's clear that the next President will help determine our free speech rights and other civil liberties for decades by his appointments to the Supreme Court. Urge your friends and neighbors to think carefully about the Supreme Court when they vote in November.
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