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That’s My Bush!
By Matt Margolis | January 16, 2004
Finally, Bush is showing some cajones with his judicial nominees who have been blocked by Senate Democrats:
President Bush bypassed Congress and installed Charles Pickering on the federal appeals court Friday, opening an election-year fight with Democrats who had stalled 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 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.
Now that’s what we need to do. Let’s hope Bush does this with more of his nominees, and while he’s at it, let’s get Estrada in there too!
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January 17th, 2004 at 1:41 pm
The rumor is that Bush had already offered this to Estrada, and he turned it down, supposedly for career reasons.
January 17th, 2004 at 2:40 pm
Interesting. I’d still like to see Estrada get in there.. who knows…
January 17th, 2004 at 5:45 pm
GOP Happy Hour?