US Senate Dems Plan Filibuster Vs Bush Judicial Nominee (Pickering)

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (AP)

Mississippi judge Charles Pickering has been unfairly mischaracterized and blocked from a seat on the U.S. Appeals Court, Republican senators said Thursday as they prepared to send his name to the U.S. Senate. Democrats said they would halt the nomination with a filibuster if they have to. ---

Republicans planned to move Pickering's nomination out of the committee on Thursday. But Democrats said Pickering's record as a lawmaker and a judge shows that he isn't worthy of promotion from a trial judge to a lifetime seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which reviews federal cases from Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana.

Pickering was the first of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees to fall to the Democrats, who voted his nomination down in committee in 2002 when they were in charge of the Senate. ---

"Judge Pickering' s nomination was bad enough. His re-nomination is even worse, because of what it also says about President Bush's own lack of commitment to civil rights," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mass. "Surely there are well-qualified nominees in Mississippi who won't use their judicial power to roll back civil rights, or vent their scorn for basic Supreme Court precedents. " ---

[MaineDem]

1. Thank you, Ted

I'm appalled that the Whistle Ass and his cohorts keep pushing this agenda.

[Tyler Durden]

2. Makes an EXCELLENT smokescreen IMHO

They can claim that the Dems are holding up everything from the CIA Wilson/Plame Affair to the rebuilding of Iraq with this.

Fuckers.