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12/25/2002 "Earth Justice: Law Policy Center"

OK, OK, I love this law site and I appreciate the work of this law center but please spare me the party line. And by that I mean the party line of lawyers.

"Tradition of an Independent Judiciary" - objective judges - this is a crock of lies fed to people outside the profession. The U.S. does not now and never did have an independant judiciary.

All judges have bias-most are very wealthy and come from wealthy families. They are ambitious. They are authoritarian. They are vicious in their methods of controlling their opponents. They silence people in their courts, in their profession and they attempt to silence their critics in the broader political arena. They use punishment and contempt.

Judges use words like civility to silence those who criticize or draw attention to their biases. They say they cannot discuss THEIR RECORD or their politics when they run for the bench. They ignore the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that those seeking appointment to the bench can and should discuss past cases they decided and that others decided. Judicial candidates even refuse to discuss the politics of organizations they belong to, such as the Federalist Society. They refuse to answer questions like "do you believe Roe v. Wade is a constitutionally correct decision? And the media agrees because it is too expensive to hire a legal researcher.

Sheep Sheep We behave like sheep and accept their lies in a civil manner.

Judges are biased on behalf of their own class and kind and they hide behind the need to be/appear unbiased. The Earth Justice Law Center below knows this. Like every lawyer they forum shop, wanting to appear before judges who are known to be liberal as opposed to conservative judges. They are using the party line to attempt to gain public support-your support. They lie and know they lie in service of a higher cause.

Their whole message below is that they will oppose the appointment of Bush's boys to the court.

I believe progressive people will continue to lose as long as we accept and promote the oppressor's values. We should be developing our own vocabulary, defining alternative values and exposing the lies that are commonly accepted as truths.

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Earth Justice: Post-Election Analysis: November 2002

It is hard to imagine what America would look like today if it were not for a series of groundbreaking environmental laws that passed in the 1970s and 1980s and for the judges willing to enforce them.

However, the American tradition of an independent judiciary as a core part of democracy, and the fundamental right of citizens to enforce environmental laws are both now at risk. Following the recent election, anti-environmental interests are now in charge of the White House and Congress.

It has therefore become more important than ever to oppose lifetime judicial nominations that would tip the balance in the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts and rollback environmental laws.

The current administration has capitulated to lawsuits brought by industry, refused to appeal rulings striking down environmental protections, and interpreted new rulings to limit environmental laws. The administration is continuing to advance this court strategy by nominating lifetime judges with a record of hostility to environmental protections.

At the same time, Earthjustice's role has become more important than ever, as the environmental community will have to rely on the courts to enforce the law and to reject efforts to rollback the clock on environmental safeguards.

More than two dozen federal courts of appeals' nominees, reportedly including two who were rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee, will soon be submitted to the Senate for approval.

In addition, by the end of the Supreme Court's session in June 2003, it is likely that one, and possibly two, Justices will retire, followed immediately by a Bush administration announcement of its nominee(s). A vote by the full Senate will follow.

Earthjustice's joint Judging the Environment project with Community Rights Counsel opposes the confirmation of anti-environmental activists to the federal bench.

In 2003, we will step up our research into the background of nominees, apply public pressure to discourage the administration from appointing judges with demonstrated hostility to environmental protections and work in conjunction with a broad coalition of environmental and other public interest groups to oppose judicial nominees with egregious records.

Vacancies in the next two years mean that the current administration could shape the judiciary for years to come by tipping the balance in the Supreme Court and in virtually every federal court of appeals.

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