SUPREME CHAOS; THE POLITICS OF JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION & THE CULTURE WAR.

Pickering, Charles, Sr. Ed Meese (Foreword).

ISBN 10: 0974537659 / ISBN 13: 9780974537658

Published by Macon, GA: Stroud & Hall Publishers, 2005., 2005

About this Item

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. xx, 219 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket rubbed with a few minor bumps at edges. Blue boards, light bumping at spine ends. Pickering's nine-line scrawled (and difficult to read) inscription to a Laurel, Mississippi physician on the front free endpaper dated for February 2006. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0974537659.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SUPREME CHAOS; THE POLITICS OF JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION & THE CULTURE WAR.
• Publisher: Macon, GA: Stroud & Hall Publishers, 2005.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974537659
• ISBN 13: 9780974537658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Mississippi

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Synopsis

A former federal judge reviews the current judicial confirmation process, discussing how partisan politics has left the process open to power struggles between the two parties and why Congressional reform is necessary.

About the Author

CHARLES W. PICKERING SR., retired federal circuit judge, knows firsthand the chaos of the broken judicial confirmation process.After unanimous Senate confirmation, President George H. W. Bush appointed Judge Pickering United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi on October 2, 1990. In May 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Judge Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. When asked to evaluate his ten years on the bench, the American Bar Association gave Judge Pickering its highest rating, “Well Qualified.” Nevertheless, a minority in the U.S.Senate obstructed and blocked Judge Pickering’s confirmation for more than two and a half years. On January 16, 2004, President Bush recess appointed Judge Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; his commission expired when the Senate adjourned without confirmation. Judge Pickering retired from the Federal Bench on December 8, 2004, and is presently senior counsel with the law firm of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz.