The Daily Background

0. Troutfishing says to call people you know. What do you tell them to do? At the moment, senators voicemail inboxes and email inboxes are reportedly mostly full (of our messages), so they aren’t taking new ones. It’s down to fax.

1. You can very easily fax several key senators for free, by just filling out a form SaveTheCourt.org/AlitoFilibuster. I highly suggest it– it takes a few seconds, and you don’t even need a fax machine to do it.

2. Fax senators. Who? These (bold indicates urgent):

Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D- AR), 202-224-4843
Joseph I. Lieberman (D- CT), 202-224-4041 [hasn’t comitted, although earlier said he would]
Thomas R. Carper (D- DE), 202-224-2441
Daniel K. Inouye (D- HI), 202-224-3934
Tom Harkin (D- IA), 202-224-3254
Evan Bayh (D- IN), 202-224-5623
Barbara A. Mikulski (D- MD), 202-224-4654
Carl Levin (D- MI), 202-224-6221
Mark Dayton (D- MN), 202-224-3244
Max Baucus (D- MT), 202-224-2651
Frank Lautenberg (D- NJ), 202-224-3224
Jeff Bingaman (D- NM), 202-224-5521
Jack Reed (D- RI), 202-224-4642
Patrick J. Leahy (D- VT), 202-224-4242
Maria Cantwell (D- WA), 202-224-3441
Patty Murray (D- WA), 202-224-2621
Herb Kohl (D- WI), 202-224-5653
John D. Rockefeller, IV (D- WV), 202-224-6472
James M. Jeffords (I- VT), 202-224-5141
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D- DE) , 202-224-5042
Bill Nelson (D- FL), 202-224-5274
Daniel K. Akaka (D- HI), 202-224-6361
Mary Landrieu (D- LA), 202-224-5824
Byron L. Dorgan (D- ND), 202-224-2551
Olympia Snowe (R- ME), 202-224-5344

3. Find more contact information here.

4. It’s working. Howard Dean has also said he supports the filibuster action, though he noted it’s not up to him. The following are senators who have signaled their support for a filibuster, since I last wrote a list here.

D-Senator Christopher J. Dodd

D-Senator Paul S. Sarbanes

D-Senator Charles Schumer

Thanks to georgia10 for some info. More info from FDL.

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