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ISBN#: 0974537659
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Judge Charles Pickering on how liberals destroyed our judicial confirmation process
-- and how to fix it before another nominee gets "borked"
Supreme Chaos: The Politics of Judicial Confirmation and the Culture War
by Charles Pickering
The judicial confirmation process is in a state of chaos -- and Charles Pickering knows about it first hand. In May 2001, President nominated Judge Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Judge Pickering waited over two years to be confirmed and was ultimately forced into retirement by a Democrat minority unwilling to give him the decency of an up-or-down vote. Now, in Supreme Chaos, Judge Pickering provides an insightful assessment of our broken confirmation process -- and offers some solutions to bringing back the Constitutional standard.
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As the Left loses the support of voters, explains Pickering, it looks to liberal activist judges to advance its agenda. As a result, integrity and ability are no longer the criteria for evaluating a judicial nominee. Liberal special-interest groups turn confirmation proceedings into bitter character assassinations, demanding that nominees swear fealty to liberal positions on hot-button social issues rather than to the Constitution. Pickering's vision of a repaired confirmation process offers hope that order can be restored from the chaos.
"From the man whom Senator Ted Kennedy called an 'extremist' comes a compelling and thought-provoking book about the breakdown of the judicial confirmation process and how the Democrats in the Senate will stop at nothing to destroy conservative nominees."
"Judge Charles Pickering is without a doubt among the best-qualified people in America to rescue us from the chaos of the current judicial confirmation process. His insights give us hope that the process can once more return to fairness and civility." -- NEWT GINGRICH
"Details the Senate's shameful behavior towards America's best and brightest legal minds." -- JOE SCARBOROUGH
"Charles Pickering is a brave man with an enthralling story to tell about the corruption of the Senate's process of confirming federal judges. Pickering has a bold solution, and he makes a persuasive case for it in this highly readable book. -- FRED BARNES
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