An Editorial on Feingold's statements in regards to Judicial Selection
Posted at 8:47:46 on April 22, 2004
The Capital Times has an interesting editorial (read full article here) regarding Senator Russ Feingolds remarks on the Bush Administration's Judicial Selection policies:
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., deserves high marks for delivering a powerful rebuke to the Bush administration - or, at the least, some of its nominees - for making a mockery of the judicial selection process.
What disturbed Feingold was the approach of William Myers III, who has been nominated to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th District.
Myers came before the Judiciary Committee with a troubling track record. He had referred to the Clean Water Act as "regulatory excess." He had described critics of the Bush administration's policies as the "environmental conflict industry." He had dismissed environmentalists as radicals "mountain biking to the courthouse as never before, bent on stopping human activity wherever it may promote health, safety and welfare."
Myers even compared the management of public lands to King George's "tyrannical" rule of the American colonies.
The radicalism of Myers' anti-environment stances, as well as his track record of insensitivity to American Indians, led more than 175 environmental, labor and civil rights organizations to oppose his nomination.
Yet Feingold sought to give Myers a chance to explain his views, and to affirm that he would respect the law. Coming from Feingold, who broke with other Democrats to support the nomination of Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2001, there was no question that the offer was sincere.
But Myers refused.
- Trae
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