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	Charles W. Pickering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1979, Pickering was the Republican nominee for Attorney General, and also served as Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1976 to 1978.
		President George W. Bush nominated Pickering for a judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2002, but his nomination was not acted upon favorably by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
		On January 16, 2004, while the U.S. Senate was in recess, Judge Pickering was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by President George W. Bush.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_W._Pickering (474 words)

	USDOJ: OLP: Charles W. Pickering, Sr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Judge Pickering served as Chairman of the Jones County Chapter of the American National Red Cross, Chairman of the Jones County Heart Fund, Chairman of the Jones County Drug Education Council, and Co-Chairman of the United Givers Fund.
		Judge Pickering graduated at the top of his law school class at the University of Mississippi where he was on the Law Journal and served as Chairman of the Moot Court Board.
		Judge Pickering serves on the Judicial Branch Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
	www.usdoj.gov /olp/pickeringbio.htm (400 words)

	Pickering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), Appeals Court judge
		Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi
		William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pickering (239 words)

	Courting Influence :: Center For Investigative Reporting :: Nominee Details
		Barbour, who has known Charles Pickering since 1968, was Republican National Committee chairman in the mid-1990s and served on a select group of advisers for Bush in 1999 when the then-governor of Texas was preparing to run for president in 2000.
		Pickering was among the legion of southern Democrats who left their party because of its embrace of the civil rights agenda.
		Charles Pickering was elected as prosecuting attorney for Laurel County, MS in 1962.
	www.courtinginfluence.net /nominee.php?nominee_id=28 (897 words)

	The Case Against Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pickering responded that the EEOC itself resolves those that have merit, and most cases that reach the district court are therefore not meritorious.
		Pickering met with the US attorneys to persuade them to agree to a new trial on the major charge on which Swan was convicted (because that charge carried the mandatory minimum sentence that Pickering opposed).
		Conclusion Judge Pickering's nomination to the 5th Circuit is particularly troubling in light of the diverse populations of the three states within that court's jurisdiction.
	www.afj.org /research_publications/research/collection/research_postpickering.html (899 words)

	On the Nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Sr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the Nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Sr.
		After being confronted with this memo during his confirmation hearing in 2002, Judge Pickering acknowledged a "vague recollection" of the event, admitting that his testimony was partially false.
		At that time, Judge Pickering expressed his displeasure with the outcome, and undertook an extraordinary campaign to circumvent the five-year mandatory minimum sentence that included off the record conversations with prosecutors, ex-parte communications with Department of Justice officials, and threats to call for a new trial.
	democrats.senate.gov /dpc/dpc-new.cfm?doc_name=fs-108-1-381 (541 words)

	Save Our Courts - Myth v. Fact: The Nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Sr., to the Fifth Circuit
		Pickering's supporters, including his son, Rep. Charles W. Pickering, Jr., have attempted to rehabilitate the judge's reputation, in part by misrepresenting his actions and motives in a case in which he aggressively undertook to force prosecutors to drop a felony charge against a convicted cross-burner.
		Rep. Pickering in particular has met with senators, and, we have concluded from news reports, has mischaracterized Judge Pickering's record on civil rights issues, especially with respect to the 1994 case.
		Myth: When Pickering approved the plea agreement of the minor, who was sentenced to home confinement and probation, he did not know that the minor had fired a gun three months earlier into the home of the victims.
	saveourcourts.civilrights.org /nominees/details.cfm?id=16904 (1000 words)

	Byron York on judicial nominations & People for the American Way on National Review Online
		Pickering said he believed the jury was biased against the couple because they were mixed race- a white man and Asian woman.
		Judge Pickering was a locally elected prosecutor who took the stand that year and testified in the criminal trial against the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who was accused of firebombing a civil rights activist.
		Pickering has been quite modest about publishing his own opinions, which means that most of his written work is not in law books but in files at the U.S. District Court in Mississippi.
	www.nationalreview.com /york/york020602.shtml (2236 words)

	Charles W. Pickering, Sr. - SourceWatch
		Pickering is absolutely the wrong choice for one of the nation's most sensitive courts.
		Pickering was rejected in 2002 by the Judiciary Committee when the Senate was still in Democratic hands.
		Pickering took up the case of a man convicted of burning a cross on the lawn of an interracial couple, urging prosecutors to drop a central charge and calling a prosecutor directly.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Charles_W._Pickering,_Sr. (1022 words)

	Charles W. Pickering Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pickering is not a military veteran of any kind, still less some sort of 'Top Gun' pilot.
		Pickering used it during a time when young Mississippians are dying in Iraq.
		Pickering had the unbelievable nerve to publicly discuss resigning his government position during wartime to take a private well paying lobbyist's job.
	www.rebelarmy.com /pickering.htm (280 words)

	CNN.com - Senate panel delays Pickering vote for a week - March 7, 2002
		Pickering's nomination has strong opposition from liberal critics, but President Bush and other Republicans have urged that he be confirmed.
		Pickering, a U.S. District Court judge in Mississippi, has been nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		A former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party and state senator, Pickering is a longtime associate of Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott's.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/07/pickering/index.html (364 words)

	National Abortion Federation: Nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Sr.: NAF's Statement of Opposition
		In 1984, with Pickering as its president, the Mississippi Baptist Convention passed a resolution calling for a ban on abortion in all cases except to save the life of the woman.
		The nomination of Pickering to this circuit is a calculated move to imperil the access of women to comprehensive reproductive health care in those states.
		Thirty-First Republican National Convention, Remarks by Charles Pickering, Delegate from the State of Mississippi in Opposition to the Amendment Concerning Abortion, Aug. 17, 1976 at 305-306.
	www.prochoice.org /policy/get_informed_active/recent_positions/nominations/pickering_oppose.html (581 words)

	Project Vote Smart - Representative Pickering - Interest Group Ratings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spring 05 Representative Pickering supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 13 percent in Spring 05.
		Spring 04 Representative Pickering supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 0 percent in Spring 04.
		Fall 2004 Representative Pickering supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 50 percent in Fall 2004.
	vote-smart.org /issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BC031799&...+Issues (8975 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Pickering Vote -- March 14, 2002
		Pickering was appointed to the federal bench by President Bush's father.
		CHARLES GRASSLEY, (R) Iowa: They're using the same plots, the same employs and talking points to destroy the career of a decent and well-qualified man. They've simply pulled out their model complaints and have just written in, filled in the blank with Judge Pickering's name.
		KWAME HOLMAN: Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold answered the argument of some Pickering supporters that because the Senate approved him as a federal district judge, he clearly is qualified to be elevated to the court of appeals.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/jan-june02/pickering_3-14.html (828 words)

	CNN.com - Bush shows strong support for judge nominee Pickering - March 6, 2002
		Bush met with Pickering and some of his supporters Wednesday morning in the Oval Office, and said "it's not fair and it's not right" for the Senate to block Pickering's appointment.
		Pickering, now a U.S. District Court judge in Mississippi, was nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans.
		A former chairman of the Mississippi Republican party and state senator, Pickering is a long-time associate of Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/06/bush.pickering (450 words)

	Judge Pickering’s defenders insult Mississippi
		Therefore, their reasoning goes, the new and approved Pickering should be appointed a 5th Circuit judge, looking out for the interests of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, together comprising the largest and poorest bloc of minorities in the country.
		Pickering protege Trent Lott and George W. Bush put up a man with a hostile record toward existing federal civil rights, voting and discrimination protections, knowing he would draw complaints.
		Pickering could even get a landmark named after him like the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Paul Johnson State Park (he who called the NAACP "Niggers, Apes, Alligators, Coons and Possums").
	www.populist.com /02.5.ladd.html (1206 words)

	Books: 'Supreme Chaos'
		Charles W. Pickering Sr.: I think it is imperative that the hearings be returned to a civil and respectful process.
		Charles W. Pickering Sr.: This would put the Court in the position of becoming partisan and I think should be avoided.
		Charles W. Pickering Sr.: That could be done, but the leaked Democrat memos reveal that the far left special interest groups wanted a commitment in advance from the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee that a nominee who was turned down on a straight party line vote would not get a hearing before the full Senate.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/01/25/DI2006012501552.html?nav=rss_nation/special (1772 words)

	Independent Judiciary: The Nominees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although Pickering has a reputation for being a law-and-order judge, he claimed to have been troubled by the disparities between Swan's sentence and those of his two co-defendants.
		When asked about his unbalanced record on employment discrimination cases at his 2002 confirmation hearing, Pickering made the outrageous assertion that meritorious claims are resolved by the EEOC and generally only those lacking in merit are brought to the federal courts.
		Pickering's actions on the bench reinforce dramatically that the insensitivity he demonstrated as a young lawyer towards some of the most divisive issues our nation has faced continues unabated.
	www.independentjudiciary.com /nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=9 (697 words)

	Pickering to leave appeals court seat - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - December 10, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Charles W. Pickering Sr., whose lengthy fight for a seat on a federal appeals court ended when President Bush elevated him by bypassing Congress, is stepping down.
		Under constitutional guidelines on recess appointments, Judge Pickering's tenure on the court was set to expire as soon as Congress adjourned, which happened Wednesday.
		"Charles Pickering repeated the shameful, baseless charge that he was opposed because he has 'committed religious values,' " Mr.
	www.washingtontimes.com /national/20041209-113214-9955r.htm (554 words)

	village voice > news > Nat Hentoff by Nat Hentoff
		In contrast with all the fierce rejections of Pickering for a seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, there is a statement from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Damon Keith.
		Pickering, "in a 1999 essay on race relations in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, addressed racial bias in the courts, empathizing with fl, not white, concerns.
		Charles Schumer, Richard Durbin, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, and the rest of the Democratic posse on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn't mention those parts of Pickering's record during the two Senate hearings on his nomination.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0345/hentoff.php (1084 words)

	Charles William Pickering, seaman
		Charles William Pickering [1841-1928] was the first son of Charles William Harrison and Elizabeth Catherine Walker Pickering.
		The Pickering's of Liverpool were involved in many businesses including banking, shipping, cotton mills, and corn merchants.
		Charles William Pickering, first born son of a banking and merchant family in 1841, educated in a manner afforded to that class of Englishmen, must have felt the pull of the sea early.
	www.fastq.com /~cstover/CWseaman1.html (559 words)

	CNN.com - Democrats vow fight on Pickering - Jan. 20, 2004
		Pickering -- a Mississippi native and friend of Lott's -- was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee last March on a 10-9 party line vote.
		"With the renomination of Charles Pickering to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the White House called into question all of its promises to demonstrate that the party of Abraham Lincoln was truly committed to civil rights," said Durbin, who also sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
		Pickering is a U.S. District judge in Mississippi; former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party; former state senator and former president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/08/congress.pickering (690 words)

	People For the American Way - Opposing The Confirmation of Charles W. Pickering, Sr. to The United States Court Of ...
		Opposing The Confirmation of Charles W. Pickering, Sr.
		Pickering's record, both before and after he became a judge, demonstrates insensitivity and hostility toward key principles protecting the civil and constitutional rights of minorities, women, and all Americans.
		Elevating Pickering to a powerful appellate court position would give him enormous influence on the interpretation of statutory and constitutional provisions that safeguard the rights of all Americans.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1208 (396 words)

	Bush Bypasses Senate On Judge (washingtonpost.com)
		Pickering was sworn in last night at the U.S. District Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., the state capital, less than three hours after Bush's announcement.
		Pickering was challenged by Democrats over his 1994 actions from the bench to reduce the sentence of a man convicted of burning a cross near the home of an interracial couple.
		On a vote of 54 to 43 in Pickering's favor, the judge's backers fell six votes short of the 60 needed to end the stalling tactics and bring the nomination to a final vote.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A23668-2004Jan16¬Found=true (1026 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Candidates slam Bush on Pickering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Democratic presidential candidates assailed President Bush's decision to bypass Congress and appoint Charles W. Pickering to the federal appeals court, calling it a threat to civil rights and the "ultimate hypocrisy" after Bush's visit to the grave site of Martin Luther King Jr.
		By naming Pickering to the court with Congress is out of session, Bush avoids the Senate confirmation process, where Democrats have bottled up the nomination for two years.
		"By appointing Charles Pickering to the court, the Bush administration is continuing its assault on our most fundamental civil rights," Clark said in a statement.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/01/16/candidates_slam_bush_on_pickering?mode=PF (759 words)

	Jackson Free Press \| [Breaking] Judge Charles W. Pickering Retiring
		The discussion should always have been about whether or not he was going to uphold the Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause, one-man-one-vote and the efforts to equalize the playing field for minorities in the circuit with a higher percentage of non-whites than any other circuit.
		That doesn't mean, however, that everyone Pickering is fingering (ick) is actually "extremist." Clearly, Pickering is characterizing people who disagree with his rather extreme right-wing stances as "extremists" (as extremists tend to do).
		Pickering that is. If you had to that is. If the price on the land or house was right.
	www.jacksonfreepress.com /comments.php?id=4723_0_27_0_C (1930 words)

	CNN.com - Pickering appointment angers Democrats - Jan. 17, 2004
		The Senate still would have to confirm Pickering for him to remain on the 5th Circuit, which is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Bush's father nominated Pickering to a U.S. District Court seat in Mississippi in 1990, and the Senate confirmed the judge.
		Pickering's critics contend he would not uphold abortion rights, and they question his record on civil rights.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/17/bush.pickering (863 words)

	W Pickering at Local.co.uk
		Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) On The Re-Nomination Of Charles W. Pickering Jan. 8, 2003...
		Howard W. Pickering Distinguished Professor of Metallurgy Department of Materials Science and Engineering 326 Steidle Building 814-863-2640...
		Charles W. Pickering Sr.: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth...
	www.local.co.uk /Pickering/W (205 words)

	The New York Times > Washington > A Judge Appointed by Bush After Impasse in Senate Retires
		harles W. Pickering Sr., who was appointed by President Bush to a federal appeals court without Senate approval during a Congressional recess, announced his retirement on Thursday at a ceremony at the federal courthouse in Hattiesburg, Miss.
		Judge Pickering, whose nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, was twice blocked by the Senate because of Democratic opposition before President Bush made the recess appointment in January, said he would not seek a new nomination to a permanent position on the court.
		Judge Pickering's nomination was one of several that Democratic senators had blocked with filibusters, a tactic that Republicans condemn.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/12/10/politics/10pickering.html?ex=1260421200&en=63c66623279b49a7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (581 words)

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