Edwards Urges Senate To Reject Bush Judicial Nominee Leslie Southwick

Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Senator John Edwards released the following statement urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject President Bush's nominee of Leslie Southwick to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

"President Bush's nominee, Judge Leslie Southwick, has an abysmal record of voting against the interests of workers, consumers and the civil rights of all Americans. We must demand that federal judges have demonstrated their commitment to Americans' full range of constitutional protections. Judge Southwick fails that standard. The stakes are too high for the Senate to wave through yet another hard-right Bush judicial nominee."

http://johnedwards.com/news/headlines/20070607-southwick/

Southwick joined a ruling in an employment case reinstating a white employee fired for calling an African American co-worker a "good ole nigger" and in this case the court ruled that the slur was only "somewhat derogatory" and "was in effect calling the individual a 'teacher's pet.'" Even the right-wing Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously reversed the decision.

Southwick later joined a ruling that took custody of an eight-year-old girl away from her mother because the mother was living with another woman in a "lesbian home" and Southwick joined the ruling which justified this custody ruling on grounds that an adult is not "relieved of the consequences of his or her choice" in sexual orientation.

I hope all the candidates do this! :toast:

Julie

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