Contact key Senators and urge them to vote against Michael Mukasey's nomination as Attorney General.

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Eleanor Smeal wrote:
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> Feminist MajorityFeminist Majority
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> Stand Up Against Torture!
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> Contact key Senators and urge them to vote against Michael Mukasey's nomination as Attorney General.
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> Dear xxx
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> The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General on Tuesday. Urge the Democrats of the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote NO on Mukasey and NO on Torture. If all 10 Democrats on Senate Judiciary vote no, the Mukasey confirmation could die in committee.
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> In response to questions in his confirmation hearings, Muksaey has refused to define "waterboarding" as an illegal interrogation practice. This method of simulating drowning dates back to the Spanish Inquisition. Waterboarding is an iconic form of torture and has been banned in international and domestic law. The United States has reportedly been using waterboarding since 9/11 in some interrogations, despite the fact that U.S. military courts have prosecuted waterboarding as torture since the Spanish American War.
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> Plus, Mukasey's answers on other issues, including habeas corpus and enforcing Congressional subpeonas, were along the Bush party line.
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> If all 10 Democrats on Senate Judiciary vote no, the Mukasey confirmation could die in committee. So far, five committee Democrats have announced that they are voting no - Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (VT), Ted Kennedy (MA), Dick Durbin (IL), Joe Biden (DE), and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI). But two Democrats, Senators Chuck Shumer (NY) and Dianne Feinstein (CA) have just announced that they will support Mukasey's nomination.
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> But it's not too late, until the votes are actually cast. Urge the Senators to vote NO on Mukasey and NO on Torture.
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> Email these Senators today and tell them Americans cannot and must no t accept torture.
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> For Equality,
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> Eleanor Smeal
> President