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"The Collusion Memos" Display Utter Contempt for the Nominations Process, Constitution
Coalition demands Senate Investigation

November 18, 2003

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary today posted the memos of Democratic staff members and extreme left wing outside organizations The documents clearly demonstrate a level of collusion to manipulate the nominations process and even the outcome of cases on the docket.

"The level of collusion between extreme left wing organizations and the Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary Committee is laid bare in these memos," said Kay Daly, president of the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary. "One memo is nothing less than a smoking gun. The April, 2002 memo to Senator Ted Kennedy details a phone call from Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund demanding that nominees to the Sixth Circuit be delayed until after an affirmative action case is decided so as to affect the outcome of the case. The implications here are nothing less than stunning."

The documents make clear that a small collection of extreme left groups - abortion groups, race organizations, and labor unions - are driving the Democrats' agenda and decisions. These groups tell Democrats whom to attack and vote down, when to hold hearings on which nominee, how many hearings to hold and rules for allowing floor votes. In one memo, Miguel Estrada is specifically targeted because he is "Latino" and a potential Supreme Court nominee.

"Strategizing is one thing. Ordering around United States Senators to fulfill a specific extreme agenda to include affecting the outcome of court cases is quite another," said Daly. "These documents expose People for the American Way, NARAL, NAACP, Alliance for Justice and many other extremist organizations as the puppet masters and these Democrat Senators dutifully fulfilling the orders dispatched to them. It is disgusting and shameful.

"We call on the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate leadership to immediately launch an investigation into this matter," said Daly.

The documents can be viewed in PDF format at www.fairjudiciary.com.

The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary is a 501(C)4 organization comprised of more than 75 grassroots organizations dedicated to supporting qualified, capable federal judicial nominees who are committed to fair and accurate interpretation of existing law. Judicial activism, characterized by rulings that create law rather than apply the law, has had a detrimental impact on American society and commerce. We seek to support federal judicial nominees who, in the words of Socrates, will "hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly and decide impartially."