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[Mr.X]

BUSH BYPASSES CONGRESS AND INSTALLS A JUDGE! FUCK!


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Bush Installs Pickering on Appeals Court
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By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) bypassed Congress and installed Charles Pickering on the federal appeals court Friday in an election-year slap at Democrats who had blocked the nomination for more than two years.


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Related Links
• Pickering Biography (DOJ)
• White House: Judicial Nominations (whitehouse.gov)



Bush installed Pickering by a recess appointment, which avoids the confirmation process. Such appointments are valid until the next Congress takes office, in this case in January 2005.


Pickering, a federal trial judge whom Bush nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) in New Orleans, has been waiting for a confirmation vote in the Senate.


"I'm grateful to the president for his continued confidence and support," Pickering told The Associated Press from his home in Mississippi. "I look forward to serving on the 5th Circuit."


Democrats have accused Pickering of supporting segregation as a young man, and promoting anti-abortion and anti-voting rights views as a state lawmaker.


Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called the recess appointment "a finger in the eye to all those seeking fairness and bipartisanship in the judicial nominations process."


Another Democrat, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said, "It is quite unfortunate that the president has chosen to seat Judge Pickering only days before the nation celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."


Thompson said that while on the federal bench in Mississippi, Pickering had sought to "limit minority voting strength and to stifle the rights of women — counter to everything Dr. King and the civil rights movement were all about."


The 5th Circuit handles appeals from Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, and the federal judges on that circuit have been trailblazers on desegregation and voting rights in the past.


Pushing for Pickering's confirmation last year, Bush said, "He is a good, fair-minded man, and the treatment he has received by a handful of senators is a disgrace. He has wide bipartisan support from those who know him best."


Democrats have used the threat of a filibuster to block four U.S. Appeals Court nominees this congressional term: Pickering, Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, Texas judge Priscilla Owen and Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada. Others, including California judges Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown, are expected to be blocked by Democrats as well.


Frustrated at the delays, Estrada withdrew his nomination in September.


Pickering's nomination had sparked one of the most contentious battles between Republicans and Democrats over the federal courts.


He was the first of Bush's nominees to be blocked by Democrats, while they controlled the Senate in 2001, and his chances of getting through the Senate waned with the resignation of then-Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., over racially insensitive statements about the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.


Pickering, however, refused to step aside and continued to try to build up support in the South. He strongly denied allegations of racial insensitivity.


"For 25 years I have strongly advocated that African-Americans and whites should sit down and talk in a positive and constructive manner to try to promote better understanding. This I've done," Pickering said after a meeting with the Mississippi Black Caucus last year.


Republicans concentrated on other nominees like Estrada and Owen, but always promised to get back to Pickering.





During Pickering's nomination hearing, Republicans accused Democrats of being religiously biased against Bush's anti-abortion nominees, a theme they continued with Estrada and other Bush anti-abortion nominees.

[Mr.X]

IS THIS THE TYPE OF JUDGE WE WANT???

Democrats have accused Pickering of supporting segregation as a young man, and promoting anti-abortion and anti-voting rights views as a state lawmaker.

[web]

ahh. what's the big deal with Bush doing this..?
- it's not like he did something really bad like invading a country for personal gain.
oh, wait a second, he did that too.. lol

[babybull34]

I'm not surprised. Yet, we still think the citizens control OUR government.

BB34

[Spook]

The only thing I could see from that report was all accusations made by democrats. Keep in mind that the federal court system is balanced or nearly balanced with conservative judges that are prolife and that is what all the filibustering has been about with democrat lawmakers. What was wrong with Miguel Estrada after all?

[Mr.X]

Originally posted by Spook
What was wrong with Miguel Estrada after all?

he's a conservative cock smoker

Mr.X

[Spook]

Conservative cock smoker? Okay. Other than just buying into things that are said by a scared-shitless DNC who have filibustered every nominee to federal courts can you say is worthwhile? Seriously, based on what the mass media says its common for the mass media to be very liberal. As of 1994, I remember some statistics that mentioned that 95% of the media voted straight democratic ticket. I'm not going to say that Bush did bad or good, but I will say, "Just because a democrat said it, dont' take it as the gospel truth."

The federal court system is overweighed slightly by liberal judges. The absolute last thing that liberals want is for law interpreters to become balanced equally. Oh well, I guess we can let the hedonistic masses that are on MTV dictate moral, ethical, and legal values to our society.

In the 60's they were called "queers", in the 70's they were called "***s", in the 80's they were called "***s", in the 90's they were called "homos", and in the new millenia they are called "democrats."

"I smoked pot but didn't inhale!" says a former president. Assuming that this federal judge espoused these views in the past when he was much younger, what difference is it in the life and past of anyone else? Anything other that this and believing what really matters as far as grey matter is concerned is hypocrisy. Not only is it hypocrisy, but it shows tremedous ignorance in life and politics.

I don't know "jack" about this dude, but I will say that if he is every bit as good as Clinton became to be while we saw his history and actions in the Presidency then none of you have the right to judge just because he belongs to one party or the other. Get real, and get an IQ.

[Spook]

Just keeping things open and balanced for discerning minds to investigate for themselves. May this guy is a scumbag, but why buy into rhetoric (founded or unfounded) since the 2004 elections are so close? Its political on the DNC side or the RNC side. Your choice but the facts that the federal court side is nearly balanced with as many conservatives as are liberals (which outweight the conservatives at this point), it becomes obvious that if anything is to get done, then it must be done through less than normal means.

To be honest, the absolute best form of government is a dictatorship, but only when the dictator seeks fairness in all things. Fredrick the Great of Prussia was a good dictator, but the DNC forsaking everything that is right is basically just wrong. Even Gephardt sold his soul to the devil. At one time he was a Pro-life and very conservative democrat. But if you want power in the DNC, you sell your soul to the devil to get it. Its such a shame.

[T-Dawgg]

Originally posted by Mr.X
he's a conservative cock smoker

Mr.X

now thats funny:laugh

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