Smearing Judge Pickering

The Washington Times ^ | January 21, 2004 | House Editorial

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In bypassing Congress and giving Judge Charles Pickering a recess appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals, President Bush has partially righted a wrong that was done to a decent and honorable man. By giving Judge Pickering the recess appointment, which expires with this Congress next January, Mr. Bush circumvents the Senate confirmation process, in which Democrats have filibustered the Pickering nomination. This does not sit well with leading Democratic presidential candidates, among them Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who criticized Mr. Bush's decision and scolded Judge Pickering as someone who "regularly put his personal views above the law in civil rights cases."

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Mr. Edwards thus falsely depicts Judge Pickering's attempt to provide equitability in sentencing as an act of insensitivity toward civil rights. With this slander of Judge Pickering, Mr. Edwards (who as a trial lawyer knows better) reveals himself a politician who will say anything -- no matter how damaging to a decent man's reputation -- to win the presidency.

Typical Democrat.

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Edwards & Co. are going to hell, not least because they DO know the truth about Pickering. But they choose to lie about him -- the cross-burning nonsense and so forth -- because it suits their political agenda.

[lilylangtree]

NAACP and other civil rights groups lost their credibility a long time ago when they back and support a Ku Klux Klan member like Sen. Sheets Byrd in office just because he's a RAT. Yet these same groups vilified Sen. Trent Lott (and I'm no fan of his) over a PERCEIVED wrong to the point where Lott resigned his leadership position. They did this because he was a PUB. No way in he*l do I think the NAACP and civil rights groups have any credibility. They're a farce.