End Run for Mr. Pickering :Wash Post editorial

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End Run for Mr. Pickering

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23724-2004Jan16.html


Sunday, January 18, 2004; Page B06


PRESIDENT BUSH'S decision Friday to install controversial judicial nominee Charles W. Pickering Sr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit using a recess appointment is yet another unwarranted escalation of the judicial nomination wars. We have lamented some of the attacks on Mr. Pickering, but his record as a federal trial judge is undistinguished and downright disturbing, and Senate Democrats are reasonable to oppose his nomination. Installing him using a constitutional end run around the Senate only inflames passions. The right path is to build consensus that nonpartisanship and excellence are the appropriate criteria for judicial selection.


We don't support the filibuster of nominees, but the answer to Democratic obstruction cannot be the appointment or installation of temporary judges who get to hear a few cases over a few months, all the while looking over their shoulders at the senators who oppose them. The great damage the judicial nomination wars threaten over the long term is to erode judicial independence, to make judges constantly aware of how they might have to answer to the Senate for a given opinion. Using the recess appointment to place Mr. Pickering on the 5th Circuit has made that danger into a reality.

[TNMOM]

1. Compassionate Phony

This is a classic Bush Co. tactic. A day after generating photos of Bush honoring Martin Luther King, Bush Co. quietly installs a racist throw-back to the bench. We should all be outraged by the overt attempt to distract the American public with a phony photo-op to obscure this cowardly act. What an outrage! Get these rats out of the white house NOW!

[GOPFighter]

2. Keep it up, A**hole!

As Bush, the quintessential political bully, just keeps pushing and pushing sh*t in our face, we just get more and more energized! You haven't got a clue do you George? You're not only making people hate you, you're making all conservatives look bad.


Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! :evilgrin:

[randr]

3. The truely conservative citizens

of this nation had better wake up to the treat that a group of phoney evangelical, uneducated creationistic, contra-conservative, dispassionate, nest messers have in store for the USofA.
This is but a preview of things to come from the new FrightWingParty.