FILIBUSTER ALERT - Call your Senator TODAY and tell him/her to FILIBUSTER SOUTHWICK!

[EffieBlack]

Leslie Southwick has been nominated for a lifetime judgeship on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a former Mississippi State Court judge and Trent Lott protege with a terrible record. Tomorrow morning, the Senate votes on whether to filibuster this nomination. If the filibuster fails, there is no doubt he will be confirmed since more than 50 Senators have already said they would vote for him.

Please call your Senator TODAY to tell them to STOP THE SOUTHWICK NOMINATION, by voting to filibuster!
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Highlights (lowlights) of Southwick's Record

1) Southwick joined an opinion reinstating a white employee who had been fired for calling an African-American coworker "a good ole ni**er." He concurred in the decision that found that use of the racial slur "was not motivated out of racial hatred or racial animositydirected toward a particular co-worker or toward Blacks in general."

2) He routinely ruled against defense claims that prosecutors rejected black jurors because of their race but, on the other hand, more often than note upheld allegations of race discrimination against white jurors.

3) Southwick once ruled that a child should be removed from the custody of her bisexual mother, joining an opinion that argued that "choice" to engage in homosexuality comes with consequences, up to and including the consideration of "the homosexual lifestyle" as a determining factor in child custody cases.

4) He ruled against workers and consumers in 89% of his cases.

This is not even a close call - Leslie Southwick should NOT be confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the Fifth Circuit.

[Totally Committed]

1. Like anyone in Washington DC gives a flying fig what WE want!

:rofl:

Neither the House nor the Senate gives a rat's ass.

TC

[Ian David]

3. Yeah, I know. I've pretty much given-up too. But I did it anyway. n/t

[movonne]

4. That's exactly how I feel .....

[Ian David]

2. Done! n/t

[beaconess]

5. Kick and recommended. I hope that the so-called liberal activists on DU

would take a minute from their obsessing about whether Obama can be trusted because he's going to be at the same event as some misguided gospel singer (who most people probably never heard of until this week and who doesn't have a lick of power over any other human being as far as I can tell) or twisting themselves into knots trying to convince everyone else that Hillary Clinton is the antichrist who will bring the Democratic Party to ruin if she's not stopped now, to direct their anger, energy and angst toward trying to stop the confirmation TO A LIFETIME APPOINTMENT of an anti-civil rights, anti-gay judge who, if he gets on the bench, will exercise ENORMOUS power over millions of people (including those in the Gulf Region, where the Fifth Circuit sits).

PLEASE call your Senator!

[EffieBlack]

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