Bush names Miss. Judge Charles Pickering to federal appeals court

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[DocCincy]

This is posted as breaking news on msnbc's website. Did a search and didn't see it anywhere. Nothing follows for now. Anyone know anything?

[gimmealewinsky]

Dashhole is deeply saddened... I'm sure this has been posted before :)

[Steve_Seattle]

Thanks; I should have remembered Owens and Brown - not exactly unusual names.

[geedee]

Greta would be out of a job if it weren't for MJ and Scott Peterson. But I do love to hear ex-Detective Ted Williams say "PO-leese" (police).

LOL. I can proudly say I haven't watched one second of her show. The stench of her CNN/OJ Simpson service is still a mite too ripe for me.

Why Fox keeps her and lets Dennis Miller get away is beyond me. People always point to ratings. I always counter for them to check her competitors . . . and her following Hannity and Colmes has a lot to do with her ratings.

[Howlin]

excuse me, my point was that this action was taken in direct response to the negativity garnered by his amnesty proposal.

You have NO idea whether that is true or not; you're just assuming it is because that's YOUR issue.

He does have more than one thing on his plate, you know.

All things do NOT like to immigration.

[LisaFab]

Yippety-skippety! Gonna be a hot time at CPAC next week! Can't wait.

[Marysecretary]

It's just the ugliness of his heart seeping through to his face (smile). Mxxx

[kcpopps]

Does anyone know - will Jusge Pickering draw a salary? Can't get the source now, but I believe recess appointees do not get paid

Sheperd Smith on FOX just said "as of today he (Pickering) gets a promotion and a pay raise." Pickering has accepted the appointmnet.

[Lady Jag]

It has been three years! How much longer can Bush wait to appoint others?

[WKB]

YEA It's about time

[Howlin]

Ah......that's real close to what it will be.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is the guy on the right the Heavens Gate wacko?

[KantianBurke]

Bush recess appointing Pickering is due to the Caucuses? How would it affect it and why would Bush get in the way of letting the Ras kill each other?

[JohnnyZ]

I believe there is a precedent -- Ronnie White, from Missouri. Didn't GW reappoint him?

White was rejected by the Senate in 1999 and is now the chief justice on the Missouri STATE supreme court.

[Mrs.Liberty]

prabably has..but it always makes me snicker!

[babaloo]

A lot of Pickering's support is from Blacks. It will reopen the discussion about how much not a racist he is when they start interviewing his supporters. It will show the facts not the fiction spewed by the Dems.

[Howlin]

The Democrats ACCUSED him of being a racist, but it's a lie. He was on the side of the black boy that the prosecutor railroaded!

[BlackRazor]

How much longer can Bush wait to appoint others?

Maybe the others don't want a recess appointment. They'd have to give up their current jobs/careers for a temporary one-year assignment.

[Redcoat LI]

This will really energise the Deaniacs.
Suckers!!

[Mrs.Liberty]

prabably=probably

[michigander]

U.S. Code
TITLE 5
PART III
Subpart D
CHAPTER 55
SUBCHAPTER I

Sec. 5503. - Recess appointments

(a)

Payment for services may not be made from the Treasury of the United States to an individual appointed during a recess of the Senate to fill a vacancy in an existing office, if the vacancy existed while the Senate was in session and was by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, until the appointee has been confirmed by the Senate. This subsection does not apply -

(1)

if the vacancy arose within 30 days before the end of the session of the Senate;

(2)

if, at the end of the session, a nomination for the office, other than the nomination of an individual appointed during the preceding recess of the Senate, was pending before the Senate for its advice and consent; or

(3)

if a nomination for the office was rejected by the Senate within 30 days before the end of the session and an individual other than the one whose nomination was rejected thereafter receives a recess appointment.

(b)

A nomination to fill a vacancy referred to by paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) of this section shall be submitted to the Senate not later than 40 days after the beginning of the next session of the Senate