BACKGROUND

Justice Scalia's "Slash and Burn" Attack on Access to the Courts
(article by Earthjustice Senior Editor Tom Turner, 4/27/05)

"Advice And Consent"
The Senate's Constitutional Role On Judicial Appointments

Earthjustice and a public interest coalition call for a bipartisan commission to amicably and fairly resolve the current differences between the White House and Michigan’s Senators over Michigan 6th Circuit vacancies (7/29/03)

Letter from environmental coalition resubmitting to current Congress & Judiciary Committee 9/27/02 letter on the importance of the DC Circuit and the need to carefully review nominees (1/28/03)

Editorial on new DC Circuit nominations "should await a more comprehensive understanding of its needs" (The Washington Post, 12/19/02)

WEB SITES

Map of U.S. Courts of Appeals territories

Community Rights Counsel
Community Rights Counsel is a partner with Earthjustice on the Judging the Environment project. Visit CRC for additional useful materials, including a report jointly released by Community Rights Counsel, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Alliance for Justice, documenting the threat that anti-environmental judicial activists sitting on the federal bench pose to protections for our air, water, and land.  

Environmental Law Institute's Endangered Environmental Laws Program
More information on environmentalists' concerns about the need for a a fair, independent judiciary.

IndependentJudiciary.org
Visit this site for more information on judicial nominees, the courts, and the issues at stake in this process.

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