lummox Posted January 16, 2004 Posted January 16, 2004 i gotta give props to gw for his nod to racism. appointing Charles Pickering, Sr. to federal appeals court while congress was out of session is fuking brilliant. and i appreciate the timing of the appointment of the acknowledged racist right between the traditional and the observed birthday of martin luther king jr. fukin a dood. you just made it that much more easy to despise your goldbricking ass. Quote
Fairweather Posted January 16, 2004 Posted January 16, 2004 As usual, Lummox, you're absent with specifics. Care to provide details re Pickering's alleged 'racism'? ...Or are you just going to label everyone who disagrees with affirmative action policies as racist? Lummox: Non-thinking tool of the left. BTW; I hope GW recess-appoints Estrada too. Seems to me he learned this neat trick from none other than...Bill Clinton. Quote
lummox Posted January 16, 2004 Author Posted January 16, 2004 Lummox: Non-thinking tool of the left. hahaha. no. i am registered republican. i wanted mccain. and pickerings racism is well documented. no need to do it here. it only peripherally has anything to do with his choices against civil rights (not 'affirmative action' ya idiot. geez. ) Quote
Fairweather Posted January 16, 2004 Posted January 16, 2004 Friday, January 16, 2004 WASHINGTON — President Bush used his executive authority Friday to bypass Senate Democrats and install District Judge Charles Pickering (search) on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The recess appointment, confirmed by Fox News on Friday, allows Pickering to skip confirmation by the deadlocked Senate and hold the seat until the next Congress takes office, which will be in January 2005. "Today I was proud to exercise my constitutional authority to appoint Judge Charles W. Pickering to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit," Bush said in a statement late Friday. "Judge Pickering has served with distinction as a United States District Judge since he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 1990. He is highly qualified to serve on the Court of Appeals and has widespread bipartisan support from those who know him best." "I'm grateful to the president for his continued confidence and support," Pickering said from his home in Mississippi. "I look forward to serving on the 5th Circuit." The 5th Circuit Court, based in New Orleans, handles cases from Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, and is known for pioneering rulings on desegregation and voting rights appeals. Democratic senators had filibustered Pickering's nomination, accusing him of racism, and saying he supported segregation while a young man and held anti-voting rights and anti-abortion positions while a state lawmaker. They also were angered by his decision to reduce the sentence of a man who had been convicted of helping burn a cross on the front lawn of an interracial couple in Mississippi and accused him of bias in an employment discrimination case he adjudicated. "A man who defended cross-burning does not deserve elevation to the bench," said Sen. Charles Schumer D-N.Y., who led the opposition to Pickering in the Senate Judiciary Committee. "As the New Year began, many of us had hoped the president would adopt a more bipartisan approach in his selection of judges. Instead, this recess appointment is a finger in the eye to all those seeking fairness and bipartisanship in the judicial nominations process," Schumer said in a written statement. "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.," added Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and member of the Congressional Black Caucus. But Pickering's supporters, including the former Democratic governor of the state, Ronnie Musgrove, the head of Mississippi's legislative black caucus and James Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers (search), say the judge is well known for being scrupulously fair on the bench. They add that as a state prosecutor in 1968, Pickering testified against a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (search), a decision that cost him his re-election, and as chairman of the state GOP, hired the first black political staffer. "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. The American Life League (search), which opposes abortion rights, said it was pleased with the president's decision. "Clearly the White House has realized that the militant, pro-abortion zealots in the Senate will neither listen to reason nor recognize the limit to their own power in this matter," said Joseph R. Giganti, ALL's director of media and government relations. "Back in October, we insisted that President Bush must take clear and bold steps. With today's appointment, he appears to have taken American Life League's message to heart. Pickering is among several judicial nominees who have been hamstrung by the filibuster (search) process. Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, Texas judge Priscilla Owen and Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada (search), who has since withdrawn his nomination, all have been stopped from receiving a majority vote in the Senate as a result of the maneuver. Others, including California judges Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown, are expected to be blocked by Democrats as well. Pickering was first nominated by Bush in May 2001. He was blocked from a Senate Judiciary Committee referral in March 2002 when Democrats held the majority. His nomination was returned to the panel in January 2003 after Republicans won back the Senate. Though he passed committee confirmation on a party-line vote last October, Democrats blocked a Senate floor vote. "Judge Pickering is a federal judge. He was confirmed by the Senate to the judgeship he already holds. He's a fine upstanding man. He's been through two Senate confirmation hearings and one Senate floor vote," said Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News judicial analyst. Napolitano said the decision to appoint Pickering probably came from the president's political advisers who saw it as an opportunity to win points with conservative voters. "This has Karl Rove (search) written all over it," Napolitano speculated. However, the recess appointment is not a new tool to the president. Bush made a recess appointment to the U.S. Institute of Peace in August. In 2002, he also gave a recess appointment to Eugene Scalia to be Labor Department solicitor and Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for Latin America, the top diplomatic post for the region. President Clinton also used his executive power for recess appointments, giving Roger Gregory a seat on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in December 2000. He also used it for another controversial position. "Democrats absolutely will be furious and when they get furious, they should look at President Cinton, who also did this, not with a federal judge but with Bill Lann Lee (search), assistant attorney general," said Napolitano. "Lee could not get confirmed by a Republican Senate to run the civil rights division of the Justice Department. President Clinton appointed him as a recess appointee, appointed him twice, he did it twice to bypass the Republican-controlled Senate and Mr. Lee ran the civil rights division of the Justice Department and the Republican Senate couldn't do anything about it." Fox News' Wendell Goler and Sharon Kehnemui and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Quote
lummox Posted January 16, 2004 Author Posted January 16, 2004 The recess appointment, confirmed by Fox News on Friday hahaha. that is some funny shit. btw: is karl rove vaccinated against jungle fever or is it a 'natural defense'? Quote
Fairweather Posted January 16, 2004 Posted January 16, 2004 Lummox: Non-thinking tool of the left. hahaha. no. i am registered republican. i wanted mccain. and pickerings racism is well documented. no need to do it here. it only peripherally has anything to do with his choices against civil rights (not 'affirmative action' ya idiot. geez. ) You're no Republican, pal. You are fooling yourself while trying to lend false credibility to your positions. What are your thoughts on prominent Democrats like Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd and the myriad of other modern liberals who were a little slow see the light vis a vis civil rights back in the 1960's? How far back shall we go, and to whom should we selectively apply this litmus test? Quote
Roger Posted January 16, 2004 Posted January 16, 2004 BTW; I hope GW recess-appoints Estrada too. Seems to me he learned this neat trick from none other than...Bill Clinton. Estrada withdrew several months ago. Clinton was at least smart enough to only do it right before he left office... Bush is just pouring fuel on the flames for his pending and future nominees. Now there is no way in hell the dems are going to approve any of the rest. Quote
lummox Posted January 16, 2004 Author Posted January 16, 2004 byrd is a confederate flag waving muther fuker. dont know much bout gore senior. i aint from the dummy triangle after all. i do know them racist fucks aint president. oh shit. was i being unrepublican? or is that unpatriotic? it does get kina hard to tell these days. i tell you what fairweather: i vote republican and libertarian. do whatever the fuk you want to. or at least so what you are told. Quote
catbirdseat Posted January 16, 2004 Posted January 16, 2004 (edited) I would say he is a racist. Long known as an opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. Chaired the Human Rights and Responsibilities Subcommittee of the Republican Party Platform Committee that approved a plank in the party platform protesting the Supreme Court's decision in Roe and calling for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. While serving in the Mississippi Senate, Pickering voted for a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to ban abortion. He voted against state funding for family planning. While Pickering was president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, the organization adopted a resolution calling for legislation to ban abortion except to save the life of the mother. As a law student, Pickering wrote a law review article suggesting ways to amend the state's miscegenation statute (interracial marriage) to ensure it would be found constitutional. Nine years later, the Mississippi legislature followed Pickering's recommendations and amended the statute. During Pickering's district court confirmation hearing, he swore under oath that he had no interaction with the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state-funded agency established after Brown v. Board of Education to oppose integration efforts. However, a commission investigator wrote a memo in 1972 indicating that Pickering "requested to be advised of developments" regarding some of the commission's investigations. In 1993, Pickering published an opinion portraying the "one-person, one-vote" doctrine as "obtrusive." As a state senator, Pickering repeatedly voted against measures that would expand electoral opportunities for African Americans after passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Pickering used identical language in his opinions in the racial discrimination cases Seeley v. City of Hattiesburg and Johnson v. South Mississippi Home Health, describing each as having "all the hallmarks of a case ... filed simply because an adverse employment decision is made in regard to a protected minority." Pickering wrote approximately 1,100 opinions during his 11 years as district judge and published fewer than 100. When the Senate Judiciary Committee asked him for the unpublished decisions, Pickering provided approximately 600 and indicated that the rest were unavailable. Sources: NARAL NAACP Alliance for Justice National Women's Law Center American Association of University Women People for the American Way Edited January 17, 2004 by catbirdseat Quote
catbirdseat Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 Macintoshes are so suck. You gotta believe me when I tell you I had carriage returns between paragraphs. They don't show. Quote
Roger Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 that's weird, b/c the first time I read your post, it did have returns between all paragraphs. I think its a right-wing conspiracy, and FW had one of the republican moderators remove your returns. Quote
minx Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 yeah FW offered me a new #3 and $50 to mess with CBS's post. Quote
rbw1966 Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 Kinky bathroom sports for money? You go girl. Quote
Roger Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 minx, does this have anything to do with why you have been waking up in Ballard lately?? Quote
catbirdseat Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 So post something on topic, marylou. Don't you think Pickering is a great choice? By being a Federal judge, he will be available to be appointed to the Supreme Court when the time comes, so he and Chief Justice Renquist can work together to overturn Roe versus Wade. Isn't that just swell? Quote
AlpineK Posted January 17, 2004 Posted January 17, 2004 I think GW Bush is a racist motherfucker. I'm sure he can talk all pc, but deep down he wants to put them darkies down. Furthermore I think Fairweather hasn't had an original thought since he volunteered for that free brain implant John Asscraft offered all true patriots. Quote
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