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Supreme Court: Petition to Stop Corporate Lawyer

Dear MoveOn member,

In the past weeks, Republicans and Democrats have called on

President Bush to nominate a moderate for the Supreme Court—someone

who would honor the legacy of independent Justice Day

O'Connor. But last night, President Bush nominated Judge

, a far-right lawyer and corporate lobbyist, to fill her post

on the Supreme Court.

We've got to stop . He opposed clean air rules and worked to

help coal companies strip-mine mountaintops. He worked with Ken

Starr (yes, that Ken Starr), and tried to keep Congress from

defending the Voting Rights Act. He wrote that Roe v. Wade should

be " overruled, " and as a lawyer argued (and won) the case that

stopped some doctors from even discussing abortion.

Join our urgent petition to let our senators know we expect them to

oppose right now at:

http://political.moveon.org/roberts/?id=5817-5733985-

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This is one of the most important domestic fights of President

Bush's career. We can win—Americans overwhelmingly want a moderate

judge. But to win, we need to get the word out early that is

out of the mainstream.

After you've signed, please send this message on to your friends and

colleagues. We need to fight back against the misinformation that

the Bush administration is putting out.

has little experience as a judge—he was only appointed

in 2003. But he's got a lot of experience as a corporate lobbyist

and lawyer, consistently favoring wealthy corporations over regular

Americans.

Here's a list of some of the things that make the wrong pick

for the Supreme Court:

Wrong on environmental protection: appears to want to limit

the scope of the Endangered Species Act, and in papers he wrote

while in law school he supported far-right legal theories

about " takings " which would make it almost impossible for the

government to enforce most environmental legislation.

Wrong on civil rights: worked to keep Congress from

defending parts of the Voting Rights Act.

Wrong on human rights: As a appeals court judge, ruled that

the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to some prisoners of war.

Wrong on our right to religious freedom: argued that schools

should be able to impose religious speech on attendees.

Wrong on women's rights: wrote that " Roe v. Wade was wrongly

decided and should be overruled. " He also weighed in on behalf of

Operation Rescue, a violent anti-abortion group, in a federal case.

President Bush could have chosen many fair-minded and independent

jurists to replace Day O'Connor. Instead, he chose a

corporate partisan loved by Bush's right-wing base but out of step

with the rest of the country.

Tell your senators they need to stop now, at:

http://political.moveon.org/roberts/?id=5817-5733985-

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We'll be in touch soon about next steps. For now, please help us

gather as many voices as possible to keep the Supreme Court fair.

And thanks for everything you're doing.

Sincerely,

–Ben, , , and the MoveOn.org Political Action

Team

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

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