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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Leslie Southwick, George Bush : Just Say "No" To This Unsatisfactory Federal Judicial Nominee!

In the previous post we told you how we agree with Kanye West's statement about the president not caing about black people. We showed his lack of concern for blacks minorities and the poor, generally speaking, anyone who is not of his constituency "the Haves and the Have-mores", as displayed in his choices of nominees for federal judicial appointments in an area with a large black population. The black population of the state of Mississippi is nearly 40 percent.

There are 2 vacant seats on the Fifth Circuit. Actually there 17 seats with 15 occupied. 11 of those positions are held by Republicans, including 3 appointees by GWB. Only one seat on the Fifth Circuit is held by a black. The current nominees are white. There are 3 seats on the Fifth Circuit that by tradition are designated to be filled by jurists from Mississippi. Leslie Southwick, born in Texas, is a son of the south and an adopted son of Mississippi.

Leslie Southwick's judicial record indicates in most cases he sides with the employer. In the only case on record in which he sided with an employee it was when he ruled to re-instate an employee who worker who was rightfully fired for calling a black colleague "a good ole nigger." He justified his ruling by stating the phaseology was the same as being call ed the teacher's pet. Southwick displayed a total deprivation of comprehension of the detestable effect of this offensive language when he accepted the social worker’s claim that the use of the slur was "not motivated out of racial hatred or animosity directed toward her co-worker or toward blacks in general." The Mississippi Supreme Court later overturned the decision to re-instate the employee.

We believe judges must be committed to equal justice. Judge Southwick, has proven time and again that he is not pledged to this intention. Visit the Alliance for Justice to review Leslie Southwick's record
. If you are sufficiently appaled by his judicial record contact your represenative in the United States Senate or the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell them to just say "NO!" to Leslie Southwick. The vote comes up again on Thursday, June 14, 2007


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