Posted on 06/10/2003 5:55:45 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
AFJ Action Alert: Oppose U.S. Court of Appeals Nomination 6/10/2003
Action Alert
Alliance for Justice
11 Dupont Circle, NW,
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-822-6070
www.afj.org
The Alliance for Justice Needs Your Help to Oppose the Nomination of Bill Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit!
On Wednesday, June 11th, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin the nomination hearing for Bill Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the 11th Circuit. Pryor has championed the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, and fought against reasonable regulation of gun purchases.
Bill Pryor received the National Rifle Association's 2001 Harlon B. Carter Legislative Achievement Award. At its award presentation ceremony, the NRA congratulated Pryor for fighting "frivolous" lawsuits against the gun industry, "[defending] the Second Amendment in the courts," helping to draft Alabama laws that immunized the gun industry from municipal lawsuits, and repealing the two-day waiting period for handgun purchases. Upon receipt of the NRA's award, Pryor said: "In a republic that promotes a free society, as opposed to a police state, one of the basic organizing principles is that individuals have a right of self-defense and a right to acquire the means for that defense."
Pryor has sharply criticized lawsuits against the gun industry. At a 1999 news conference of the American Shooting Sports Council, Pryor said: "These types of lawsuits threaten the entire business community. The free market and the cause of human liberty cannot survive much more of this litigation madness...[gun suits] are a clear and present danger to the rule of law in our nation."
We need your assistance over the course of the next few days to call and/or e-mail members of the Senate Judiciary Committee OPPOSING the nomination of Bill Pryor. Gun control and gun safety groups that have diligently been working to stop gun industry immunity should help to oppose Bill Pryor for his support of the gun industry and the NRA. The NRA clearly favors such a judge being placed on the federal bench.
For a comprehensive review of Pryor's record, please go to independentjudiciary.com.
For more information, please contact Kristin Becker at the Alliance for Justice at 202-822-6070 x292 (kbecker@afj.org).
PLEASE CALL AND/OR E-MAIL SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS AND OPPOSE THE NOMINATION OF BILL PRYOR TO THE FEDERAL COURT.
Sen. Joseph Biden (D - DE) Phone: 202-224-5042
senator@senate.biden.gov
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R - GA) Phone: 202-224-3521
saxby_chambliss@chambliss.senate.gov
Sen. John Cornyn (R - TX) Phone: 202-224-2934
Sen. Larry Craig (R - ID) Phone: 202-224-2752
Sen. Mike DeWine (R - OH) Phone: 202-224-2315
Senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov
Sen. Richard Durbin (D - IL) Phone: 202-224-2152
dick@durbin.senate.gov
Sen. John Edwards (D - NC) Phone: 202-224-3154
Click here to e-mail Senator Edwards
Sen. Russell Feingold (D - WI) Phone: 202-224-5323
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) Phone: 202-224-3841
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R - SC) Phone: 202-224-5972
Sen. Charles Grassley (R - IA) Phone: 202-224-3744
Chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), Judiciary Chairman Phone: 202-224-5251
Senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D - MA) Phone: 202-224-4543
senator@kennedy.senate.gov
Sen. Herb Kohl (D - WI) Phone: 202-224-5653
Senator_kohl@senate.kohl.gov
Sen. Jon Kyl (R - AZ) Phone: 202-224-4521
info@kyl.senate.gov
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D - VT) Phone: 202-224-4242
Senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - NY) Phone: 202-224-6542
senator@schumer.senate.gov
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R - AL) Phone: 202-224-4124
senator@sessions.senate.gov
Sen. Arlen Specter (R - PA) Phone: 202-224-4254
arlen_specter@specter.senate.gov
Please contact Kristin Becker at AFJ (202-822-6070 or kbecker@afj.org) if you have sent an e-mail or called any of the following Senators. Thank you in advance for your help on this urgent matter.
Date of Release: June 9, 2003
He's worse on the abortion votes, than the 2a votes, but I can't really count on him.
Somebody at JTO is going to get fired for using that phrase. Usually they won't admit that there is any such thing as Second Ammendment rights for individuals.
Pryor said: "In a republic that promotes a free society, as opposed to a police state, one of the basic organizing principles is that individuals have a right of self-defense and a right to acquire the means for that defense."
Aristotle figured it out and even Plato was coming over to our side a little. What's so hard about this concept that thousands of years later they still can't get it through their heads. If only the Government has the weapons tyranny always follows. Maybe it takes a decade and maybe it takes a century. But it always follows.
Not only is he a pro-gun-rights American, but it was his election law case victory during a contested Alabama contest that set the precedent used by the SCOTUS in Bush v Gore back during the 2000 election madness.
He's an ethical, principled man.
Young, too. He's clearly SCOTUS material in the future (say, next 6 years).
Oh, did anyone notice that 4 SCOTUS Justices will be too old to make it past the end of a 2nd GWB term?!
Yup. One of my favorites. The liberals are all over his butt too.
The horror! ;-)
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