Bush Bypasses Congress and.......

[onecitizen]

appoints Pickering to Court of Appeals. Details unfolding now.

[Buffler]

1. Recess appointment

nothing new. Happens all the time in all administrations.

[59millionmorons]

2. PS---Bush forfeits minority vote in 2004 elections

Smooth move exlax. Dems candidates should be doing backflips.

[onecitizen]

3. demdem......

what does that mean? Sorry I don't get it. More info please?

[59millionmorons]

4. Simple

Pickering is rascist. Bush uses back door way to get him in.

[onecitizen]

5. Oh OK.......

I understand now. My mind was on the process of recess appointments and not on the man. Yeah he is a racist. Thanx.

[Buffler]

6. I have always heard

that racist accusation thrown against Pickering. But I never really have had anyone explain to me just what Pickering has done to qualify him for this accusation. Maybe I wasnt paying enough attention. Could someone help me out here? Thanks!

[onecitizen]

7. I like this article.........

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=7809

[Buffler]

8. Thanks

But that article clearly repeats several times that Pickering is not a racist, and says that his opponents are not saying his is. But clearly many here (who could be considered his opponents) are calling him a racist.

Still looking for evidence to support the charge.

[annagull]

9. He went to astounding lengths to get cross burners off

In the case, two men and a juvenile had burned an eight-foot cross on the lawn of an interracial couple with a young child...

Specifically, questioning by Senator Edwards revealed that Pickering had threatened to order a new trial in the case (even though the time for such an order had expired and Pickering had no authority to order it on his own motion), ordered Justice Department lawyers to take his complaints about the proposed sentence personally to the Attorney General, and initiated an ex parte communication with a high-ranking Justice Department official to complain about the case. A Justice Department letter released after the hearing revealed a series of "off-the-record" efforts by Pickering to pursue his complaints, including a direct phone call by him to the home of one prosecutor the day after New Years' Day, 1995. Senator Edwards expressed serious concern that Judge Pickering had violated Rule 3.A.4 of the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges, which specifically forbids ex parte contacts between a judge and attorneys for one side of a case about that case...

Senator Durbin was concerned about the extreme lengths to which Pickering went to assist the defendant to obtain reduced punishment for conduct - the cross-burning -- that Pickering at one point called a "drunken prank." Senator Schumer stated that Pickering's explanation concerning the sentencing disparity "doesn't wash," particularly in light of other sentencing disparities when one defendant pleads guilty in a case, the invidious nature of the crime, and the fact that Congress had established a mandatory minimum sentence that Pickering was trying to avoid. Pickering's conduct in the cross-burning case further militates against his confirmation.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1292
if you still don't get it, maybe you don't want to.

[onecitizen]

11. You couldn't have read........

all that and reached the conclusion you have apparently reached. While some people say he is a nice enough guy, his record as a Federal Judge and State Senator does not reflect that.

Go back and read all of it when you have time and you'll probably reach a different conclusion.

[Jawja]

13. Ha!

And he did this after pushing his way into the MLK Memorial and a photo op at his tomb??

This man has no shame. Utterly and absolutely no shame whatsoever.




:wtf:

[bluedog]

10. this is what he's all about

http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/pickering.html





http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4083


these groups will not be happy with this and nuush will be toast!

[tom_paine]

12. So what? Rule by Imperial Fiat is a fact of life in our debased Empire

This is nothing the Emperor* and his stooges haven't been doing since they seized and strangled the Old American Republic for funa and profit.

Given how much they have gotten away with and how readily the Imperial Subjects of Amerika are to accept any lie told by Der Fuhrer*, I still find it somewhat surprising that a bunch of "terrorists" haven't broken into the Capital and killed all the Congresscritters.

But the Busheviks are probably taking it slow and easy. No point tipping their hand by jumping right to 2020.