ACU’s Advice and Consent to GOP Senate Leadership: Cloture Now for William Myers

ALEXANDRIA, VA— The American Conservative Union, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, today called on the Republican senate leadership to allow a second cloture vote on Judge William Myers, a nominee for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

President Bush nominated Judge Myers in May 2003. More than a year later, on July 20, 2004, the senate finally voted on cloture. Although the judge lost that vote, the GOP has since gained four senate seats, and with barely a week left before the summer recess, it is time for a second cloture vote.

“Only in the U.S. senate does it take two years to give ‘advice and consent,’” said J. William Lauderback, executive vice president of the American Conservative Union. “Moreover, it seems that the opposition to Judge Myers is grounded in bad faith: it does not concern his qualifications or scholarship, but comes primarily from the trial lawyer lobby masquerading as environmentalists.”

“Bill Myers is a distinguished and brilliant public servant, who deserves more from our friends in the GOP leadership,” Lauderback concluded.