I am forwarding this from the national Sierra Club because it expresses one
of my strong concerns regarding the outcome of this year's election.    Jo
Hudson
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Subject: ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Court Disaster?
Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2000, 12:43 PM


SUPREME COURT APPOINTEES COULD THREATEN THE ENVIRONMENT

Our next President -- either Al Gore or George W. Bush -- will almost
certainly appoint several Justices to the Supreme Court.

Governor George W. Bush has publicly stated, on "Meet the Press" (9/21/99),
that current Justice Antonin Scalia is his model for a Supreme Court
Justice.

Leading legal scholars consider Justice Scalia the most anti-environmental
Justice ever to sit on the Supreme Court. Even other conservative Justices,
such as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, often disagree with Justice Scalia in
environmental cases because of his failure to acknowledge scientific
progress.

Your vote for Al Gore could mean the difference between a Supreme Court
that enforces strong environmental protection, or one that turns the clock
back on our hard-fought gains.

For example, in a case decided earlier this year, Justice Scalia expressed
horror that a person who lives near a polluting plant would be able to hold
the company accountable for violating the law.  Justice Scalia argued that
the Court was making it too easy for people to fight environmental threats
in
their own neighborhoods. Never mind that the factory in question had
poisoned a river by dumping toxic mercury into the water 489 separate times.

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