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Bush names Miss. Judge Charles Pickering to federal appeals court
MSNBC.com ^ | DocCincy

Posted on 01/16/2004 12:14:46 PM PST by 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?


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; charlespickering; daschlesaddened; judicialnominees; pickering; recessappointment
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To: alnick
Yup, Fox is losing it. Cavuto led his program with this M. J. crap. They have totally caved to the Pop culture. He has yet to even mention Bush's recess appointment.

stay tuned.......the latest with Paris Hilton coming up

321 posted on 01/16/2004 1:11:21 PM PST by Prolifeconservative (If there is another terrorist attack, the womb is a very unsafe place to hide.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Yes, this should energize the most radical fringes of the left -- mostly in Dean's camp. At least 10 professors/1 Dean/several students are in Iowa from my campus -- this will DRIVE THEM NUTS!

[Additionally, I'm sure the President wanted to both pre-empt Congress' return next week (including Daschule/Pelosi's pre-SOTU speech on Monday or Tuesday morning?) and provide an appropriate ideological backdrop for his SOTU speech on Tuesday!]
322 posted on 01/16/2004 1:11:30 PM PST by DrDeb
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To: kevao
Hey, it's nice to see people be able to admit they were wrong. It makes for productive discussion.

Leading by your example, I'll admit, I was wrong to want Bush to sign CFR. I thought for sure that the SC would overturn it, but in retrospect, it wasn't worth the risk, and I was wrong.

But let us give a collective, "Go, Bush, Go!"

323 posted on 01/16/2004 1:11:41 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: DocCincy
EXCELLENT!

Let the whining begin!
324 posted on 01/16/2004 1:11:54 PM PST by ShandaLear (Howard Dean STILL isn't any safer!)
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To: Aeronaut
TDIDS = The Dow Is Driving Skywards
325 posted on 01/16/2004 1:12:20 PM PST by spokeshave (It took Bush LESS time to topple Saddam than it took Janet Reno to topple the Branch Dividians in Wa)
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To: All
I wonder if he will mention this during Tuesday's SOTU.
326 posted on 01/16/2004 1:12:44 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: Dog
No no no, we don't want Dean to get charged with insider trading for another few months! He needs to get the nomination first!

327 posted on 01/16/2004 1:12:58 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: over3Owithabrain
How 'bout we trade the illegals for the moveon crowd?

OK

328 posted on 01/16/2004 1:13:10 PM PST by eyespysomething (Another American optimist!)
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To: 11th_VA; gov_bean_ counter
Try figuring this out minus your cynical leap that's it's only about politics. Pickering's nomination has been dangling for two years, yet he had the courage to stick with it and not withdraw his name. The President stuck with him, too. So now the President, famous for valuing loyalty above most other qualities, gives Pickering some much overdue justice and puts him on the bench. It is the humane and right thing to do.
329 posted on 01/16/2004 1:13:19 PM PST by Wolfstar (George W. Bush — the 1st truly great world leader of the 21st Century)
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To: Capt. Jake
One DUmmy is patiently trying to remind the others that Clinton used the same tactic.

He'll soon get banned.

330 posted on 01/16/2004 1:13:38 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: BluSky
so all weekend the Dems get to trash Pickering, than Bush can address the issue of judicial obstruction during his SOTU speech. Brilliant strategery!
331 posted on 01/16/2004 1:13:45 PM PST by votelife (Elect a Filibuster Proof Majority)
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To: DrDeb
This is definately the chain to yank.
332 posted on 01/16/2004 1:14:00 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Fury
No problem! Hope you're smiling as big as I am! BTW, can the President do this more than once?
333 posted on 01/16/2004 1:14:04 PM PST by used2BDem (Can't think of one at the moment!)
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To: Carolinamom
Bush installs Pickering on appeals court, bypassing Democrats who had blocked him

TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
Friday, January 16, 2004

(01-16) 13:08 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

President Bush bypassed Congress and installed Charles Pickering on the federal appeals court Friday in an election-year slap at Democrats who had blocked the nomination for more than two years.

Bush installed Pickering by a recess appointment, which avoids the confirmation process. Such appointments are valid until the next Congress takes office, in this case in January 2005.

Pickering, a federal trial judge whom Bush nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, has been waiting for a confirmation vote in the Senate.

"I'm grateful to the president for his continued confidence and support," Pickering told The Associated Press from his home in Mississippi. "I look forward to serving on the 5th Circuit."

Democrats have accused Pickering of supporting segregation as a young man, and promoting anti-abortion and anti-voting rights views as a state lawmaker.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called the recess appointment "a finger in the eye to all those seeking fairness and bipartisanship in the judicial nominations process."

Another Democrat, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said, "It is quite unfortunate that the president has chosen to seat Judge Pickering only days before the nation celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."

Thompson said that while on the federal bench in Mississippi, Pickering had sought to "limit minority voting strength and to stifle the rights of women -- counter to everything Dr. King and the civil rights movement were all about."

The 5th Circuit handles appeals from Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, and the federal judges on that circuit have been trailblazers on desegregation and voting rights in the past.

Pushing for Pickering's confirmation last year, Bush said, "He is a good, fair-minded man, and the treatment he has received by a handful of senators is a disgrace. He has wide bipartisan support from those who know him best."

Democrats have used the threat of a filibuster to block four U.S. Appeals Court nominees this congressional term: Pickering, Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, Texas judge Priscilla Owen and Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada. Others, including California judges Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown, are expected to be blocked by Democrats as well.

Frustrated at the delays, Estrada withdrew his nomination in September.

Pickering's nomination had sparked one of the most contentious battles between Republicans and Democrats over the federal courts.

He was the first of Bush's nominees to be blocked by Democrats, while they controlled the Senate in 2001, and his chances of getting through the Senate waned with the resignation of then-Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., over racially insensitive statements about the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

Pickering, however, refused to step aside and continued to try to build up support in the South. He strongly denied allegations of racial insensitivity.

"For 25 years I have strongly advocated that African-Americans and whites should sit down and talk in a positive and constructive manner to try to promote better understanding. This I've done," Pickering said after a meeting with the Mississippi Black Caucus last year.

Republicans concentrated on other nominees like Estrada and Owen, but always promised to get back to Pickering.

During Pickering's nomination hearing, Republicans accused Democrats of being religiously biased against Bush's anti-abortion nominees, a theme they continued with Estrada and other Bush anti-abortion nominees.


Associated Press writer Jesse Holland contributed to this report.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/16/national1515EST0683.DTL


334 posted on 01/16/2004 1:15:14 PM PST by deport (You BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50, MAKE 60, HIT 70 and then it becomes day by day)
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To: kevao
No, because there are Americans who want this job! [And, yes, I'm ignoring your pitiful attempt at sarcasm!]
335 posted on 01/16/2004 1:15:17 PM PST by DrDeb
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To: Green
I think you're correct. I read the exception too quickly. What this essentially provides is that an appointee will get paid, unless he's a REPEAT recess appointee.

So, Pickering will get paid, after all.

336 posted on 01/16/2004 1:15:20 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: zbigreddogz
I'm imagining Dean (or Clark, either one) wins the nomination but in October has to drop out. The Democrats draft Hillary, who gets a big sympathy vote. She doesn't win but it all helps her image and sets her up for 2008.
337 posted on 01/16/2004 1:15:39 PM PST by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Wolfstar
You don't know me very well. And I don't think it was "just about politics".
338 posted on 01/16/2004 1:15:50 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Hand em there arse
"My niece is married to the Republican Governor of California. Get me a case."
339 posted on 01/16/2004 1:16:22 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: KantianBurke
Get a life! I am so sick and tired of you cynical types who only see a political equation to everything this President does. Vote for him or don't vote for him, agree with him or not, but quit tearing him down.
340 posted on 01/16/2004 1:16:54 PM PST by Wolfstar (George W. Bush — the 1st truly great world leader of the 21st Century)
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