Judicial Nominee Under Scrutiny (for lying to Congress)

[Rose Siding]

Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.) called Tuesday for an investigation into whether William G. Myers III, a nominee for the federal appeals court in San Francisco, lied when he told a Senate committee that he was not aware of the terms of a controversial settlement the Interior Department had made with a politically connected Wyoming rancher until months after the deal was signed.

Myers was the top lawyer at the department in the first term of the Bush administration, when the agreement was consummated. Feingold said a memo from Karen Budd-Falen, the rancher's lawyer, "directly contradicts Mr. Myers' written response to a question I submitted."

A spokeswoman for Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said he was reviewing the information regarding Myers, who cleared the committee on a 10-8 party-line vote last month......
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Community Rights Counsel and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, two public interest groups opposing Myers' nomination to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, gave the lawyer's memo to senators and urged an investigation.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-judge13apr13,1,3386290.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[liberal N proud]

1. Well by the standards in the bu$h regime he should be promoted

with out delay.
What is Congress thinking, they need to move him to the head of the class.
He fits in well with all of the other bu$h appointees.

[Inland]

4. When's the medal ceremony?

Presidential Medal of Freedom w/Lying to Congress Clusters.

[madmom]

2. yes but it wasn't a blow job so promote him! n/t

[indepat]

3. Suggest the fine senator call for an investigation into every apparent lie

uttered to the Congress during these past fifty or so months, be it by a nominee to federal office or bench, some private spokesman appearing before the Congress or a committee therof, and any official speaking on behalf of the administration on any issue of national importance, be it relating to environmental, tax and fiscal, or war issue(s).

[Coastie for Truth]

5. I am saving my appends for Terrence Boyle

an activist reactionary judge who ignores Congress, makes his own laws as he goes along (judicial legislation) and is part of the Culture of Death.