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From: Mighty_Mezz	4/19/2005 9:08:00 PM
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Call your Senators and tell them to vote against these three nominees on Thursday. Terrence Boyle (Full report at pfaw.org Boyle has tried to overrule important federal laws and precedents that protect the rights of ordinary Americans. For example: He suggested in an employment discrimination case that the federal government should respect discrimination that is explained by a state's "culture." Despite repeated reversals, he has attempted in several cases to severely limit federal anti-discrimination laws and wrote that working is "not a major life activity" warranting protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Underscoring Boyle's lack of fitness for an appeals court seat, his rulings have been reversed on appeal at a rate twice as high as any other district court judge nominated for promotion by President Bush. Janice Rogers Brown (Full report at pfaw.org Brown continues to push a radical view of the Constitution that would eliminate worker protections, give corporations free reign to abuse workers and the environment, and undermine constitutional protections for fundamental rights and liberties. For example: She claimed that racially discriminatory speech in the workplace, even when it rises to the level of illegal race discrimination, is protected by the First Amendment. She urged that judicial activism was needed to reinterpret California law "to accommodate worker leasing," thus allowing employers to deny retirement and other benefits to long-term "temporary" workers. She tried to apply the state's "religious employer" exemption to an employer that, by its own admission, did not meet the law's criteria so that the employer could continue to deny insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives to its workers. Priscilla Owen (Full report at pfaw.org Owen's commitment to judicial activism in favor of corporations and against consumers and individual rights has been well documented. For example: She has embraced opinions that would make it more difficult for employees to prove discrimination claims or receive compensation for on-the-job injuries, even arguing in one case for an interpretation of Texas civil rights law that would have effectively changed the law by judicial fiat. She has made repeated attempts to rewrite Texas' parental notification law by adding new criteria and erecting additional barriers that the Legislature never intended. She argued to delete parts of a Texas law so that the court could throw out a jury verdict against a store that sold liquor to an "obviously intoxicated" driver, who subsequently caused permanent brain damage to a father and his daughter in a head-on collision. It is plain to see why these nominees will likely inspire Democratic senators to filibuster. President Bush renominated them, and Sen. Frist is pushing them, to create a confrontation. Don't back down from this fight. Tell your senator to reject Boyle, Brown and Owen this Thursday.

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