Call to Action... 9th Circuit Appointment

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Got this in my email this morning.

The Senate is likely to vote early next week on the nomination of William Myers, a staunchly anti-environment nominee, to the Ninth Circuit.

Please urge your Senators to oppose his nomination to a lifetime seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a lobbyist and lawyer for grazing and mining interests, and later as a top official at the Interior Department, William Myers has demonstrated his contempt for environmental protections and trampled on the rights of Native Americans. In addition, like so many of President Bush's other nominees to lifetime positions on the federal courts of appeals, his statements appear to embrace a legal philosophy that would undermine or destroy federal protections in such critical areas as civil rights, worker and consumer health and safety, and privacy.

Furthermore, Myers does not have the experience necessary for a lifetime seat on the Ninth Circuit, one level below the
Supreme Court.

William Myers is unfit for a lifetime appointment to one of the
country's most powerful courts and his confirmation would harm the
citizens of the Ninth Circuit, as well as all Americans. Urge your senators to vote NO on Myers by calling the Capital Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or take action below.

Take action here:
http://capwiz.com/afj/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=4935376

For more information on William Myers, please visit:
http://www.independentjudiciary.org/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=76

Nan Aron
President
Alliance for Justice

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http://www.earthjustice.org/policy/judicial/pdf/Overview_of_Nominees_J
une_2004.pdf

• Myers, a former ranching- and mining-industry lobbyist, has been
nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
As the Interior Department's top lawyer, Myers repudiated his
predecessor's legal opinion to clear the
way for a rejected cyanide heap-leach gold mine that would devastate
sacred tribal lands. Myers ignored
Interior's trust responsibility to tribes and other legal
requirements by meeting with the mining company but failing
to consult with the affected tribe, which had requested a meeting.
• The Interior Department reversed another Myers' position after
discovering that he supported giving valuable
public land to a mining company without even checking with the local
Interior office, which strongly opposed the
giveaway because land records showed the company lacked any lawful
claim to the land. L.A.Times 3/8/04.