Help Stop another bad Bush Judiciary nominee

On Thursday June 7th, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be voting on Judge Leslie Southwick as a nominee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Judge Southwick is a conservative along the lines dear to Bush's heart: he believes homosexuality is a "choice" (one which should be punished by taking their children away from homosexuals), he believes that racial epithets are OK in the workplace, and he doesn't ever rule in favor of the poor or minorities.

Follow me over the jump for more details, and how to stop the nomination.

More info on him from Common Dreams, and the Alliance for Justice.

From the Alliance for Justice report:

Of all the judges on the Mississippi Court of Appeals, Judge Southwick received the highest rating of any judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals from a business advocacy group based on his votes in cases involving businesses. Indeed, in 160 out of 180 published decisions involving state employment law and torts case in which at least one judge dissented, Judge Southwick voted against the injured party and in favor of business interests, such as corporations or insurance companies, in whole or in part. Thus Judge Southwick has an 89 percent record of voting against workers, consumers and other victims in divided decisions.

On racial issues:

Bonnie Richmond, a social worker for the Mississippi Department of Human Services was fired when she referred to an African American co-worker as a "good ole n*****" at a meeting that included top agency executives. Judge Southwick joined a 5-4 decision that found that, taken in context, this slur was an insufficient ground to terminate her employment in part because it "was not motivated out of racial hatred or racial animosity directed toward a particular co-worker or toward blacks in general."

Senator Obama is the only senator I have heard about who is speaking out against this nomination.  They should all be rejecting Judge Southwick.

If you have a senator on the Judiciary Committee, tell your senator now that you want them to reject Judge Southwick's nomination.

Members of the Judiciary Committee:

Patrick J. Leahy, CHAIRMAN, D-VERMONT
Edward M. Kennedy, D-MASSACHUSETTS
Arlen Specter, RANKING MEMBER, R-PENNSYLVANIA
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-DELAWARE
Orrin G. Hatch, R-UTAH
Herb Kohl, D-WISCONSIN
Charles E. Grassley, R-IOWA
Dianne Feinstein, D-CALIFORNIA
Jon Kyl, R-ARIZONA
Russell D. Feingold, D-WISCONSIN
Jeff Sessions, R-ALABAMA
Charles E. Schumer, D-NEW YORK
Lindsey Graham, R-SOUTH CAROLINA
Richard J. Durbin, D-ILLINOIS
John Cornyn, R-TEXAS
Benjamin L. Cardin, D-MARYLAND
Sam Brownback, R-KANSAS
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RHODE ISLAND
Tom Coburn, R-OKLAHOMA

Working Assets' Act for Change has put up this link if you want to send something through them.