Home / Elections 2006
Senator Ted Kennedy has launched a new website for his re-election bid in 2006. There's something special about it. He's using it to gather netroots support against one of Bush's worst judicial picks. Good for him.
Check out this petition drive on his site to defeat William G. Myers III for a U.S. Court of Appeals judgeship.
Myers has spent his career trying to dismantle the protections our courts exist to preserve. He was a former lobbyist for the mining, grazing and cattle industries and a Bush Administration bureaucrat. His only experience has been manipulating laws and regulations for corporate gain, against the public interest. He’s unqualified to sit on the largest federal appellate court in the country.
Myers was among the 20 judges whose names Bush resubmitted to Congress after being rejected by the last Senate. More information about him is available here. In July, 2004, the Senate blocked a vote on his confirmation, and the Republicans were unable to muster the 60 votes necessary to force it.
As PFAW said in December when Bush renominated the rejected appointees:
(6 comments, 346 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments
| << Previous 12 |
