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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: laura_bush who wrote (494508)	11/17/2003 9:50:00 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Shrub just gets scarier and scarier If you think you will always be able to seek justice by suing a large American business, you should be aware that this is the kind of person Bush is nominating for America's Judiciary. How big business is quietly funding a judicial revolution in our nation's courts - By Michael Scherer - Nov/Dec 2003 issue of Mother Jones. President Bush's lower-court nominee, William H. Pryor Jr. .. "pushed for the execution of the mentally retarded, compared homosexuality to bestiality, defended the posting of Bible quotes at the courthouse door, and advocated rescinding a portion of the Voting Rights Act. He called Roe v. Wade "the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history." He was also "the only state attorney general to challenge the Violence Against Women Act." In 1999, after refusing to join other Attorney Generals in lawsuits against the tobacco and gun industries, he told business leaders, "The business community must be engaged heavily in the election process as it affects legal and judicial offices." He also "created ... the Republican Attorneys General Association, which skirted campaign-finance laws by allowing corporations to give unlimited checks anonymously to support the campaigns of Pryor and other "conservative and free market oriented Attorneys General." "What you have is a wholesale effort to hijack the federal judiciary," says Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat and former corporate defense lawyer.