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We publish press releases as we receive them. If you have one you think we should publish, send it to webmaster@radicalacademy.com, and we will consider it for publication. Because The Radical Academy publishes press releases on its website does not imply acceptance or approval of the content. Nor is the Academy responsible for any misrepresentation of the facts included. It is your job to be a critical reader. Posted Here on May 26, 2009 For Release: May 26, 2009 Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 or dalmasi@nationalcenter.org Black Leader Urges Senate Scrutiny for Sotomayor Supreme Court Nomination No Rubber Stamp for Controversial Nominee With President Obama's nomination of U.S. Circuit Court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the vacancy being created by U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter's impending retirement, Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is urging senators to take a very close look at her record before commenting on her fitness for the job. "Of all the possible nominees suggested over the past few weeks, it appears Obama selected the most radical one," said Massie. "The U.S. Senate has the duty to scrutinize Judge Sotomayor's record to ensure she has the demeanor and aptitude to be elevated to such a solemn post." Massie continued: "During the Bush Administration, it was common for liberal senators to demand a consensus nominee with broad political appeal. By selecting an avowed liberal in Sotomayor, it would appear Obama is not following the stipulation he and his former colleagues sought to impose upon his predecessor. This should open up the nomination to the scrutiny it justly deserves." The Sotomayor nomination, Massie notes, is the perfect catalyst to begin a national debate on the appropriateness of "judicial activism" - when judges essentially cut lawmakers out of the legislative process and try to rule from the bench. For example, in a 2001 speech at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Sotomayor said it was appropriate for a judge such as herself to use her "experiences as women and people of color" to "affect our decisions." In 2005, she told a crowd at the Duke University Law School that the "Court of Appeals is where policy is made" - rather than by lawmakers beholden to voters. Massie commented: "Considering Justice Souter's record, Sotomayor will not change the balance of the Supreme Court. But she will likely dramatically alter the temperament of the Court and the way in which it operates. Senators must keep this in mind as they take on the very solemn process of vetting her fitness." Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization supported by the National Center for Public Policy Research, has been a leading voice of the African-American community since 1992. For more information, contact David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or Project21@nationalcenter.org, or visit Project 21's website at www.project21.org/P21Index.html. 501 Capitol Court, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 543-4110 Fax (202) 543-5975 E-Mail: info@nationalcenter.org
Posted Here on May 23, 2009 For Immediate Release Judge Orders College Student's Laptop Be Returned By Police A judge has ordered police to return a laptop and other property seized from a Boston College computer science student's dorm room after finding there was no probable cause to search the room in the first place. The police were investigating whether the student sent hoax emails about another student. EFF and Boston law firm Fish and Richardson are representing the computer science student, who was forced to complete much of the final month of the semester without his computer, phone, and network access in the wake of the now-rejected search. For the full press release: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/05/22 For more on this case: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/mass-sjc-tosses-calixte-warrant 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco CA 94110-1914 USA 1 415 436 9333 (voice) - 1 415 436 9993 (fax)
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