6/11/2003; Sierra Club Open Letter to Senators Specter and Leahy, 4/20/2005]  Pryor Said Congress Has No Role in Education or Controlling Crime. “Congress, for example, should not be in the business of public education nor the control of street crime,” Pryor said. [William Pryor Address before the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, 11/12/99]  Pryor Denounced Miranda Ruling As “Judicial Activism.” “And in this term the Rehnquist Court issued two awful rulings that preserved the worst examples of judicial activism: Miranda v. Arizona and Roe v.Wade,” Pryor said. [William Pryor Address before the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, 6/11/00]  Pryor Defended Big Tobacco. “In 1996, our task force in Alabama found that all of the best economic studies concluded that smokers, as a group, do not impose the cost of their habit on the government… the premature deaths of smokers actually save the government the cost of Social Security, pensions, and nursing home payments,” Pryor said. [Remarks at Seaton Hall Law School Symposium, 2001]  NAACP Opposed Pryor. The NAACP opposed the Pryor nomination referring to him as a “right-wing extremist.” [NAACP Legislative Report Card, 2003-04]  League of Conservation Voters Opposed Pryor. Few nominees have boasted stronger anti-environmental credentials than Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor, nominated in April 2003 for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which handles appeals from federal district courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. [www.LCV.org] XXXX Voted to Invoke Cloture on the Confirmation of Carolyn B. Kuhl. In 2003, XXXX voted to invoke cloture on President Bush’s nomination of Carolyn B. Kuhl of California to be a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The NAACP opposed the Kuhl nomination referring to her as a “right-wing extremist.” [Vote 451, 11/14/03; NAACP Legislative Report Card, 2003-04] XXXX Supported the Confirmation of Janice Rogers Brown. Since 2003, XXXX has consistently voted to confirm President Bush’s nomination of Janice R. Brown of California to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [Vote 130, 6/8/05; Vote 131, 6/7/05; Vote 452, 11/14/03]  Brown Has Said That New Deal Marked “The Triumph Of Our Own Socialist Revolution.” Brown has said that 1937, the year that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld provisions of the New Deal, marked “the triumph of our own socialist revolution.” [Brown Speech, 4/20/00; Legal Times, 5/2/05]  Brown Has Said Seniors “Blithely Cannibalize Their Grandchildren Because They Have a Right to Get…Free Stuff.” Brown said, “Today’s senior citizens blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a right to get as much free stuff as the political system will allow them to extract.” [Orange County Register, 5/19/05] XXXX Voted to Confirm D. Brooks Smith As 3rd U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals Judge, Despite Opposition From Civil Rights Groups And Feminists. In 2002, XXXX voted in favor of the confirmation of Bush’s nomination of D. Brooks Smith of Pennsylvania to be a judge for the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Civil rights groups, feminist organizations and environmental lobbyists opposed his nomination. Smith remained in an all-male sporting club for 11 years after testifying before the Judiciary Committee in his 1988 confirmation hearing he would leave if the club did not change its bylaws banning women. "He acknowledged that continuing there would be inconsistent with ethical rules, but he continued to serve there," Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., said. "He didn't resign until 1999, and then only after this vacancy on the 3rd Circuit opened up." Democrats also criticized Smith for waiting to remove himself from a case involving a bank where his wife was a vice president and they questioned trips he accepted from organizations pursuing relaxed environmental regulations. [Vote 202, 7/31/02; Associated Press, 7/31/02; Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, 7/31/02] 243