BigDeputyDog
02-20-2004, 08:28 PM
President Bush has appointed former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, bypassing a Democrat filibuster, by using the "recess appointment". The Constitution gives the president authority to install nominees in office when Congress is not in session. Both houses were out this week for the Presidents Day holiday.
Bush picked Pryor last April for a seat on the 11th Circuit that covers Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Abortion rights advocates immediately mounted a campaign against the nominee, citing his criticism of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that said women had a constitutional right to terminate pregnancy.
Pryor also came under fire for filing a Supreme Court brief in a Texas sodomy case comparing homosexual acts to "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia."
SOURCE (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040220/D80R9GQG1.html)
Can't get 'em in one way, go around to the back door, eh?? :eek2:
BDD...
Bush picked Pryor last April for a seat on the 11th Circuit that covers Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Abortion rights advocates immediately mounted a campaign against the nominee, citing his criticism of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that said women had a constitutional right to terminate pregnancy.
Pryor also came under fire for filing a Supreme Court brief in a Texas sodomy case comparing homosexual acts to "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia."
SOURCE (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040220/D80R9GQG1.html)
Can't get 'em in one way, go around to the back door, eh?? :eek2:
BDD...