IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED - Yet Another Corporate Crony to be Confirmed as Federal Judge
ACTION NEEDED TODAY!
Dear Grassroots Leadership Friends,
How do you like the idea of the General Counsel for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the world's largest for-profit private prison corporation, being confirmed as a Federal judge--in the very same judicial district in which CCA is headquartered, and in which over 400 cases against CCA or CCA employees have been filed?
You can help help stop this! Call today (202-224-7703) or send a fax (202-224-9516) to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be holding confirmation hearings this Tuesday, February 12, and tell them you unconditionally oppose this profound judicial conflict of interest.
If a U.S. Senator from your state is on the Senate Judiciary Committee (list below), please call their office as well to tell them of your opposition.
Information about Gustavus A. Puryear IV, including specifics about why this would be an egregious miscarriage of justice, is on the attached flyer. More information is available at www.againstpuryear.org.
Thanks as always for helping Grassroots Leadership fight for justice for all.
In solidarity,
Si Kahn, Executive Director
U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY MEMBERS
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
You can find the contact information for your state's Senators at the following link:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Schumer, Charles E.- (D - NY)
Class III
313 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6542
Web Form: schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm
America is a corpocracy, and unabashed cronyism is one of the rules.
Great & very detailed letter you wrote articulating your objections, spoken from heart as a vigilant law school grad.
I supported the nomination of John Roberts (sort of) as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court but opposed Samuel Alito because I perceive Mr. Alito to be a neocon sycophant. I prefer the judges and justices who take neither side and allow the facts to decide the cases instead of letting corruption sink in to produce deep bias and erroneous judgments.