A 'bittersweet' appointment (Pryor)

Washington Times ^ | 2/25/04

[kattracks]

Last Friday, President Bush announced the recess appointment of Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is Mr. Bush's second recess appointment to a judgeship in two months, and only the third such appointment by a president since 1980. Considering that the highly qualified Judge Pryor had no chance of beating a Democratic filibuster, we are happy to see the president make this rare but necessary move. After resigning his position as Alabama attorney general on Friday, Judge Pryor called the moment "bittersweet." We would have to agree.

[LibertarianInExile]

Now if Bush would just appoint some real conservatives to the rest of the bench seats after the elections, we might have something to be happy about. Pryor is a toe-the-party-line moderate. Big whoop.