And this the day after the photo-op at MLK's grave. _____________ Bush Installs Pickering on Appeals Court The Associated Press Friday, January 16, 2004; 3:17 PM WASHINGTON - President Bush installed Charles Pickering on a federal appeals court Friday, bypassing Democrats who had stalled his nomination for more than two years, sources said. Bush appointed 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 who 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. Democrats have accused him of supporting segregation as a young man, and pushing anti-abortion and anti-voting rights views as a state lawmaker. They also have said they wouldn't be able to trust Pickering to keep his conservative opinions out of his work on the federal appeals court.
More from the "liberal" media...If I'm not mistaken, Democrats "accuse" him of these things....because they're a matter of public record. Duh!
While we're talking about what people used to support.... how about the Ku Klux Klan, liberals? Here is your democratic Senator who used to be a full fledged Klansman.
the fact he's overwhelmingly supported by blacks in his home state i suppose is irrelevant to "liberals"
Funny how there are several Republicans with embarrassing pasts in regards to race relations but you can only keep coming up with the same Democrat.
No. It's good that Republicans honor King. It's good that Dems and all Americans and world citizens honor King. It's not good when you do it and then turn around the next day and undertake an action that undercuts what King fought and worked for... when that happens, one looks at the symbolism of visiting the gravesite and the real act of appointing someone to the Federal bench who is antithetical to King's ideas. It tends to breed a certain cynicism.
Really? and from what corner of the RNC did this myth spring? Is this by some "study" or were a few sops trotted out at his confirmation hearings? Yeah, I'm sure african americans from Yazoo City to Jackson are all overwhelmingly supportive of Pickering's theories of FELA jurisdiction........
Ahh, I guess I'm able to answer my own question on this one....it is getting easier and easier to slice through Republican crapaganda these days: Same old tired story; Republicans repeat myth/lie/exaggeration loudly enough; people repeat it, people accept it. It's what they did with Iraq, it's what they do with taxes and the budget, it's what they do with everything. Shame on them.
"...At the hearings on his confirmation for a federal judgeship, Pickering flatly asserted that he had never had any contact with the [Mississippi Sovereignty] Commission (an anti-civil-rights group). It was, at the time, impossible to contradict his claim because the commission's files were sealed -- a sealing for which Pickering had voted in favor as a Mississippi state senator in the 1970's. Unfortunately for Pickering, public interest law suits forced the release of the commission's records in 1998. And those records plainly revealed that Pickering had lied under oath..."
Well the this should get the impeach Clinton crowd up in arms then. It's ashame that Bush who was supposed to bring integrity back to the whitehouse forced this in around the normal confirmation process. At least it's only temporary, but it's bad none-the-less.
What does this have to do with Pickering? Wait, lemme guess: since there's a racist Democrat out there, it makes it OK for Republicans to be racist.
He lied under oath, voted to have those records sealed, supported segregation, was blocked to a federal appointment for two years, and was finally installed to the bench only by bypassing Congress. Smells good to me. Of course, since he lied under oath, I'm sure conservatives will jump all over this and demand his immediate impeachment.
Since he is such a horrible person, I am confused why the Democrats never just brought his confirmation to a vote.
The Bushies need Pickering, so they can do stuff like this in the future : http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw...7jan17,1,7777211.story?coll=la-home-headlines Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia Friends hunt ducks together, even as the justice is set to hear the vice president's case. By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force. While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially. But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned." . . . Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, said Scalia should have skipped going hunting with Cheney this year. "A judge may have a friendship with a lawyer, and that's fine. But if the lawyer has a case before the judge, they don't socialize until it's over. That shows a proper respect for maintaining the public's confidence in the integrity of the process," said Gillers, who is an expert on legal ethics. "I think Justice Scalia should have been cognizant of that and avoided contact with the vice president until this was over. And this is not like a dinner with 25 or 30 people. This is a hunting trip where you are together for a few days." . . .
Bait and Switch get you pissed about the MLK thing then do this under the radar so to speak Rocket River
Because they knew the Republicans only care about the rule of law when it's a Democrat who may be breaking it.
