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The Guardian (UK)
Bush Installs Judge, Bypassing Senate Saturday February 21, 2004 2:31 AM
By JEFFREY MCMURRAY
Associated Press Writer
To read the complete article, click here--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3771470,00.html
[This link was found on the Guardian's website through a Google search on March 18, 2004]
Excerpt--
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bypassing angry Senate Democrats, President Bush installed Alabama Attorney General William Pryor as
a U.S. appeals court judge on Friday in his second ``recess appointment'' of a controversial nominee in five weeks.
Pryor's federal appointment has been vigorously opposed by Democratic senators who have objected to his past comments and
writings on abortion and homosexuality. ...
Pryor was immediately sworn in in Alabama by another 11th Circuit judge.
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. But the appointments are good only until the end of the next session of
Congress, in this case the end of 2005.
Last month, Bush used a similar appointment to promote Mississippi federal judge Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. ...
Republicans have been unsuccessful in five attempts, the last one in November, at breaking through the parliamentary blockade
that Democrats erected against Pryor's nomination.
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Associated Press reporter Phillip Rawls in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this story.
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