Bush Nominee for District Court an Anti-Choice Zealot

President Bush has nominated Richard Honaker for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to the District Court in Wyoming. Richard Honaker has worked tirelessly to ban abortion and has publically stated that abortion is “wrong, and no one should have the right to do what is wrong.” Richard Honaker is one of Bush’s most anti-choice nominees to date and shouldn’t receive Senate confirmation.

As a representative in the Wyoming State Legislature, Honaker introduced the “Human Life Protection Act” in 1991. The act would have criminalized abortion from the moment of conception except in the cases of rape, incest, or to protect the woman’s life. Even women who were the victims of rape or incest would have been denied abortions unless they reported the incidents to the authorities within five days. When the act failed to pass, Honaker reintroduced it in 1992 and it was again defeated. In 1994, Honaker served as counsel to the Unseen Hands Prayer Circle, which formed to place the “Human Life Protection Act” on the statewide ballot.

In one year President Bush will be out of the White House. We must ensure that President Bush doesn’t get anymore of his anti-choice zealots on the federal bench. Tell your Senators to reject the nomination of Richard Honaker.

Visit the Californians for Fair and Independent Judges website to learn more and for links to sites with online tools to write your Senator opposing this nomination.

EJS in Community Spotlight on Monique Morris' Blog

Monique Morris, the Senior Research Fellow at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), mentioned EJS on her blog at moniquewmorris.net/blog. Thank you, Monique!

Monique is an accomplished scholar and advocate (and author!) and an incredible ally.

She featured EJS in her Community Spotlight:

In just seven years, EJS has accomplished a lot to support an infrastructure to sustain a progressive legal and political agenda. A few of EJS’ accomplishments include: partnering with the California Teachers Association and Kaiser Permanente to address unconscious bias, building effective progressive alliances; creating discourse on government as a source for good ; and commissioning a jazz orchestra to chronicle and interpret many of the significant events and people in civil rights history. As a truly creative force in the legal advocacy community, the Equal Justice Society stands out as an organization and Movement worthy of praise.

Please visit Monique's blog and say hello.