Get access to
MEMBER LOGIN

Nomination Statements

Florence Wagman Roisman and Nancy Ehrenreich

For years, SALT has had a Judicial Nominations Committee, which reviews nominations to the federal bench and recommends to the SALT Board that SALT oppose nominees whose records demonstrate hostility to SALT’s principles.

The Board has opposed several nominees to the federal courts of appeals and one nominee to the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito.

The SALT Board also opposed two non-judicial nominations, that of Alberto Gonzales and now Michael B. Musasey to be Attorney General of the United States.

SALT’s statements of opposition appear below:

November 2, 2007 Opposition to the Nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General

June 6, 2007 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

August 7, 2006 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of William J. Haynes to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

May 16, 2006 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

January 9, 2006 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court

May 10, 2005 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Terrence Boyle to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

April 6, 2005 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Thomas Griffith to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

March 22, 2005 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

February 25, 2005 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of William H. Pryor, Jr. to the Eleventh Court of Appeals

February 25, 2005 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of William G. Myers, III to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

February 11, 2005 Opposition to the Judicial Nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals