Advocacy Group Accuses Judicial Nominee of Subverting Religious Pluralism

June 9, 2005

Source: Americans United for Separation of Church and State press release

http://www.civilrights.org/issues/nominations/details.cfm?id=32172

On June 9, 2005 an Americans United for Separation of Church and State press release reported, "the Bush administration's crusade to pack the federal courts with extremists scored another victory today with the Senate's confirmation of William Pryor, said Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Quickly following Janice Rogers Brown's confirmation, the Senate late today voted 53-45 to approve the former Alabama attorney general for a lifetime appointment on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Americans United had urged the Senate to reject Pryor's nomination, noting his long track record of attacking the First Amendment principle of church-state separation... In letters and a report to senators, Americans United detailed Pryor's fervid support of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's battle to keep an enormous Ten Commandments monument housed within the state's Judicial Building."