Reply #28: The most right wing court in the country [View All]

[MrBenchley]

"With the highest concentration of underrepresented groups in the country?more than 43 percent?it is crucial that judges are sensitive to the rights and concerns of these populations.  Pickering's confirmation would move this already conservative circuit even further to the extreme right and away from the mainstream and the ideals of the population for which it serves.
* The Fifth Circuit is regarded as one of the most conservative circuits in the country, and Pickering would bring the circuit further to the right.  In recent years the circuit has issued a number of the most extreme civil rights rulings, at least two of which have been overturned by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court for having gone too far.  Further, the conservative Fifth Circuit has reversed 26 of Pickering's district court decisions, despite its extremely conservative outlook. 
President Bush's nomination of Charles Pickering for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and of extremist judicial candidates in general, could alter the current moderate balance of the courts and tip the scales of justice even further away from the protection of individual and civil rights.  "

http://www.aauw.org/about/newsroom/press_releases/pickering.cfm

As always, what a swell bunch of playmates the RKBA crowd has....