[Dan from MI]

http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/alerts/reader/0,2061,563706,00.html

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
Click here to e-mail Senator Craig

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
Click here to e-mail Senator Feingold

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) Phone: 202-224-3841
Click here to e-mail Senator Feinstein

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R - SC) Phone: 202-224-5972
Click here to e-mail Senator Graham

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


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We need judge like Pryor to counter the jerks like Reinhardt(9th circuit)

[Standing Wolf]

Pryor has championed the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, and fought against reasonable regulation of gun purchases.

I can't believe a leftist extremist actually wrote "...championed the Second Amendment rights of gun owners..." No slur? No snide adjective? No use of "misinterpreted"?

Must have been awfully late at night.

[jimpeel]

Good of them to do the research and post the information for us to know who to contact in support of Pryor. What a bunch of sweethearts!