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	Mainstream Republican Groups Oppose Nomination of William Pryor
		Pryor's argument that gay and lesbian Americans may be branded as criminals because some in a state disapprove of them.
		Pryor again reiterated his belief stating he opposed the decision as being "morally wrong"; this decision was not based on legal reasoning.
		Pryor will respect established law and practice judicial temperament untainted by personal prejudice. This is a lifetime appointment to our federal court system, an un-elected body that relies on its integrity to maintain the trust of the people.
	online.logcabin.org /news_views/mainstream-republican-groups-oppose-nomination-of-william-pryor.html (422 words)

	William H. Pryor, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pryor served as a law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1987 to 1988.
		Pryor said that although he agreed with the propriety of displaying the Ten Commandments in a courthouse, he was bound to follow the court order and uphold the rule of law.
		Pryor was nominated by President Bush on April 9, 2003 to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_H._Pryor,_Jr. (541 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. A Justice for All? - William Pryor's Legal Opinions \| PBS
		Attorney General Pryor is "a conservative leader for the cause of limited government, judicial restraint, and free enterprise." His belief in the sovereignty of states as opposed to the federal government informs many of his most controversial decisions.
		Pryor disagreed with the court's ruling and Alabama went forward with plans to execute a man named Glenn Holladay, said by his attorney to have an IQ of 64.
		William Pryor has also argued many cases on a federalist basis which bear on education and employment law.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/pryor.html (1077 words)

	Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nomination Of William Pryor Second Cloture Vote
		Pryor’s passion is not some obscure legal theory but a legal crusade that has driven his actions since he was a student and something that guides his actions as a lawyer.
		Pryor’s speeches and testimony before Congress demonstrate just how rooted his views are, how much he seeks to effect a fundamental change in the country, and how far outside the mainstream his views are.
		Pryor is candid about the fact that his view of federalism is different from the current operation of the federal government — and that he is on a mission to change the government to fit his vision.
	leahy.senate.gov /press/200311/110603e.html (3414 words)

	Alabama Attorney General - Attorney General Bill Pryor Biography
		Pryor also taught as an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University from 1989 to 1995.
		Pryor has served as a member of the State and Local Senior Advisory Committee for the White House Office of Homeland Security and as a member of the Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Justice on the Bush-Cheney Transition Team.
		Pryor is a member of the American Law Institute, the Legal Policy Advisory Board of the Washington Legal Foundation, and the Federalist Society.
	www.ago.state.al.us /bio_pryor.cfm (566 words)

	NAF \| Public Policy \| Get Informed/Get Active \| NAF Took a Stand \| Judicial Nominations \| Bill Pryor \| NAF's Statement ...
		Pryor's position against the law raises concern that he is not attuned to the issues of harassment and violence directed at abortion providers and their patients.
		Pryor's opposition to the DPPA is not the only indication that he is not responsive to the critical needs of abortion providers and their patients to be protected from harassment and violence.
		The nomination of William Pryor to the Eleventh Circuit is an obvious effort to restrict access to safe and legal abortion and promote a radical agenda that lies well outside of the mainstream.
	www.prochoice.org /policy/get_informed_active/recent_positions/nominations/pryor_oppose.html (965 words)

	Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nomination Of William Pryor - Cloture Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pryor’s record is so out of the mainstream that, even before last month’s hearing, a number of editorial boards and others weighed in with significant opposition.
		Pryor’s speeches and testimony before Congress demonstrate just how deeply-rooted his views are, how much he seeks to effect a fundamental change in the country, and how far outside the mainstream his views are.
		Pryor appeared before the Committee, he repeated the mantra of those who desire confirmation, saying that he would “follow the law.” But his deeply held and intense commitment to overturning established Supreme Court precedent that protects fundamental privacy rights makes it impossible to give his promises any credence.
	www.senate.gov /member/vt/leahy/general/press/200307/073103a.html (2482 words)

	Statement of Senator Dianne Feinstein In Opposition to the Nomination of William Pryor
		One of Judge Pryor’s legacies as Attorney General of Alabama is his effort to weaken and undermine Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990 to protect the rights of the disabled.
		Pryor’s repeated attempts to use judicial means to undo the legislation protecting basic civil rights raise questions about both his willingness to protect individual’s civil rights and his propensity to judicial activism – using the courts as a partisan vehicle to undo legislation he does not support.
		Pryor’s intemperate legal and political beliefs, and his strident statements and actions in furtherance those beliefs, that have led me to question whether he can be truly impartial.
	feinstein.senate.gov /05releases/r-pryor0609.htm (2400 words)

	deal-with-it.org \| the cards \| hearts \| william pryor
		Pryor uses law and Constitution as a mask, hiding behind it when needful, abandoning it when necessary, and always remembering it is a tool for his purposes, without real, value of its own.
		People for the American Way report that Pryor defended Alabama’s handcuffing prisoners to hitching posts in a case in which an inmate alleged he was left in the hot sun for seven hours without water or bathroom breaks.
		Pryor has also claimed “the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are rooted in a Christian perspective of the nature of government and the nature of man. The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.”
	www.deal-with-it.org /hearts/pryor.htm (453 words)

	William H. Pryor, Jr. - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pryor also endorsed a bill in the Alabama legislature that would have allowed lawyers who oppose abortion to represent the state against minors who went before judges to seek permission to have an abortion without their parents' knowledge.
		William Pryor currently serves as Alabama's Attorney General, and has demonstrated a consistent and profound hostility to the NAACP's "bread and butter" civil rights priorities, specifically the protection of voting rights and civil liberties.
		William Pryor vigorously defended Alabama's practice of handcuffing prison inmates to hitching posts in the hot sun if they refused to work on chain gangs or otherwise disrupted them, arguing that the practice did not violate the prisoner's right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=William_H._Pryor,_Jr. (1732 words)

	civilrights.org -- William Pryor's Judicial Confirmation
		William Pryor, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, has been a leader in the effort to limit congressional power to enact laws protecting civil rights.
		Pryor argued that the protections of the ADA were "not needed" to remedy discrimination by states against people with disabilities.
		Pryor is a leading architect of the recent "states' rights" or "federalism" movement to limit the authority of Congress to enact laws protecting individual and other rights.
	www.civilrights.org /issues/disability/details.cfm?id=13712 (387 words)

	The Truth About William H. Pryor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If Pryor had his way, the government would have no power to protect the rights of citizens and for people living in different states, it would be like living in different countries.
		Pryor has asserted that the Supreme Court should cut back on the protections of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Clean Water Act.
		Pryor persuaded the Supreme Court into a 5-4 decision that individuals cannot sue to enforce regulations under the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — the law that prohibits recipients of federal funds from engaging in conduct that discriminates based on race or national origin.
	www.now.org /issues/judicial/060305-TruthPryor.html (1113 words)

	Bush Court Nominee William Pryor: Outside the American Mainstream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In his role as attorney general, Pryor challenged a key provision of the ADA, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional for states to be sued under ADA for money damages by state employees.
		Pryor was the only attorney general in two cases urging the Supreme Court to overturn federal laws on states’ rights.
		Pryor’s record, says the AFL-CIO letter, “reveals him to be an ideologically driven activist with views outside the mainstream that are hostile to the interests of the working men and women we represent.
	www.aflcio.org /issues/ns07092003.cfm (689 words)

	Untitled1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After the birth of Elmira Rosalie on 11 Mar 1846, the family packed up, told their relatives "good bye" and answered the call to move to Texas, which recently became part of the United States. Their daughter Mariah would be about 2 to 3 years old and Rosa an infant when the trip was made.
		William J. PRYOR was listed on 1847 Rusk Co., TX tax list with no property. The 1848 Rusk Co. tax list showed him with 1 white poll tax. By 1849 he was listed with 320 acres of the M. CHISUM grant, valued at $480. Lemuel was listed with a gun valued at $15.
		Martha Jane (MONTGOMERY) PRYOR died in 1857, either during the birth of her last child, Emma, or shortly afterwards. William Jackson PRYOR died in 1876. Both are buried at
	www.homestead.com /lemons/WmJPryor.html (506 words)

	Genealogy Information for William Pryor Letchworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		William Pryor Letchworth's great-grandparents, John and Diana Letchworth, emigrated from England to Philadelphia in the mid-1760's with their four children.
		William's grandfather, who was a caretaker for several Quaker properties and a farmer, and his wife, Mary Pryor Letchworth, lived in the Philadelphia area and later in New Jersey.
		William's father, a harness maker, and mother, Anne Hance Letchworth, moved from Burlington, NJ in 1820 to Brownville, NY (where William was born) and subsequently to Sherwood, NY (near Auburn.)
	people.clarityconnect.com /webpages3/hydn/WPL.CConnct/WC_TOC.HTM (173 words)

	Jeffrey St. Clair: Killer Bill Pryor's Mad Quest for the Federal Bench
		Pryor is so maniacally devoted to the death penalty that he objected loudly to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Atkins case ruling that executing mentally retarded and brain damaged people violated the Constitution.
		Pryor, a pious father of two, even thinks that children should be sentenced to death and he has done so in record fashion: Alabama has now sentenced more juveniles to death on a per capita basis than any other states.
		Pryor's agenda is as toxic as it is transparent: jail the poor and execute as many as you can as quickly as possible; allow the public sphere to be infested with Christian dogma; roll back civil rights and voting rights gains; and protect interest of corporate elites regardless of their crimes.
	www.counterpunch.org /stclair06142003.html (2593 words)

	People For the American Way - William Pryor: Ideology Over All
		Pryor had defended these barbarous actions and complained that the high court was using “its own subjective views on appropriate methods of prison discipline.” Yet interpreting the Constitution and enforcing its protections is exactly what the Supreme Court is supposed to do.
		Pryor also believes it is acceptable to imprison gay men and lesbians for expressing their own human sexuality in the privacy of their own homes.
		Pryor is far from being, as one supporter stated, “utterly fair… and demonstrably nonpartisan.” Pryor instead has demonstrated that he uses his position to remake the law in order to suit his extreme ideological beliefs.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=10730 (1264 words)

	Students for the Judiciary - William Pryor Jr.
		Pryor has shown a tendency to allow his personal political opinions to impair his professional ethics and legal judgment.
		For example: he testified that he was unaware whether RAGA solicited tobacco companies, even though the documents in question reportedly show that Pryor himself was assigned to solicit two large tobacco companies, each of which donated $25,000.
		The Supreme Court rejected Pryor's arguments: "Hope was treated in a way antithetical to human dignity--he was hitched to a post for an extended period of time that was painful and under circumstances that were both degrading and dangerous.
	www.princeton.edu /~ckunkel/judiciary/pryor.shtml (628 words)

	Justices weigh entering judicial nominee fray - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com
		Pryor is a Catholic and his defenders say his anti-abortion views are rooted in his religious faith.
		Pryor foes argue there was no basis for Bush to act since the Senate was to come back into session in only 10 days.
		Pryor’s allies contend, contrary to Barkett, that the Senate did not refuse to consent to Pryor’s nomination — in fact, it never got a chance to vote on it at all due to the filibuster supported by only a minority, 44 Democratic senators.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6818473 (1322 words)

	People For the American Way - William Pryor: Unfit to Judge
		Pryor is often contemptuous of viewpoints with which he does not agree, striking a tone of ridicule in his speeches, briefs and arguments while taking deadly aim at the rights and freedoms under debate.
		Pryor defended Alabama’s practice of handcuffing prisoners to a hitching post in a case in which an inmate alleged he was left in the hot sun for seven hours without water or bathroom breaks.
		Pryor believes that it is constitutional to imprison gay men and lesbians for having sex in the privacy of their own homes, and has filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold Texas’ “Homosexual Conduct law,” which criminalizes such conduct.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=10911 (1230 words)

	Too extreme or … too Catholic? Pryor nomination puts religion to the test - Nation - William Pryor National ...
		There was no reason to believe, when President Bush nominated William Pryor to a seat on the federal appellate bench last April, that the debate over the conservative Alabama attorney general would result in Methodist and Mormon senators lecturing their Catholic colleagues on the finer points of Catholic doctrine.
		Dueling news conferences--religious groups opposed to the Pryor nomination said the debate was about Pryor's ideology, not his faith; groups supporting the nominee said it was bigotry, not ideology, that placed the Pryor nomination at risk.
		Pryor was nominated, said Chaput, because "he has served the state of Alabama with distinction, enforcing its laws and court decisions fairly and consistently." Others saw less benign motives for the nomination.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_37_39/ai_107897224 (795 words)

	Press Releases - Interfaith Alliance
		Pryor used state resources to advance his anti-gay beliefs, linking the state’s website to anti-gay extremist groups,” Smith said.
		Pryor’s arguments, with Justice Anthony Kennedy—who was appointed by President Reagan—dismissing his arguments as ‘demeaning.’ Mr.
		Pryor dismissed existing Supreme Court precedent as ‘morally wrong’ no one can reasonably believe that he will respect established law and practice judicial temperament untainted by personal prejudice,” Barron said.
	www.interfaithalliance.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=8dJIIWMCE&b=137971&ct=939029 (860 words)

	civilrights.org -- Act Now to Stop the Lifetime Appointment of Out-of-the-Mainstream Judicial Nominee William Pryor!
		William Pryor, nominated to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, is an ultra-conservative legal activist whose record demonstrates that he is unfit to serve on the federal bench.
		Pryor has also argued that the Supreme Court should cut back on the protections of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
		Pryor has been a vocal opponent of the rights of criminal defendants and the accused, even supporting practices that were declared to be cruel and unusual punishment.
	www.civilrights.org /issues/nominations/details.cfm?id=32043 (593 words)

	Here come the judges, again - Salon
		During his seven-year tenure as the attorney general of Alabama (1997-2004), Pryor's unabashed conservativism was legendary.
		Pryor's close ties to industry have been critical in his rise to power.
		Pryor stood alone among the 50 state attorneys general in challenging the constitutionality of key portions of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, asserting that land use and wildlife protection are "traditional areas of state environmental primacy" that should remain free of federal government regulation.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2005/05/20/7_judges (1278 words)

	William H. Pryor - National Association of the Deaf
		Pryor is perhaps best known for his advocacy in the case of Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v.
		Pryor's views of the law expressed in that speech would also eliminate individuals' ability to sue to enforce Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
		Pryor also argued to the Supreme Court that state entities cannot be sued under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)(10) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).(11) The Supreme Court accepted his argument with respect to the ADEA, but rejected the argument he made in an amicus brief with respect to the FMLA.
	www.nad.org /site/pp.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=297978 (1379 words)

	People For the American Way - Introduction
		Pryor, 41 years old, has used the power of his office in an effort to push the law in an extreme far right direction harmful to the rights and interests of ordinary Americans.
		Pryor has done this not only through litigation in which Alabama was a party, but also by electing to file amicus curiae briefs in cases in which Alabama was not involved and Pryor had no obligation to participate.
		Pryor’s extreme positions on so many critical aspects of Americans’ individual rights seriously place in doubt his ability to maintain an open mind about these matters were he to be confirmed.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=10900 (975 words)

	Legends in the Law: William Pryor
		William C. Pryor is a senior judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals.
		A 1954 graduate of Dartmouth and 1959 graduate of Georgetown University Law School, Pryor was admitted to the bar in 1959.
		A professor at the District of Columbia School of Law, Pryor also is known to play a heads-up game of basketball.
	www.dcbar.org /for_lawyers/resources/legends_in_the_law/pryor.cfm (2901 words)

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