Democrats are voicing outrage that Bush has made a recess appointment of Judge Charles Pickering to serve on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Under the law, recess appointments serve one year, which means that Judge Pickering will be serving until the 109th Congress convenes in January 2005.
Daschle is quoted in the Washington Times as saying, "It is now clear that the White House will exploit any procedural tactic in order to pack the courts with right-wing ideologues." Of course Daschle fails to mention that the Democrats have used a procedural tactic, the filibuster, to keep Pickering off the circuit court even though, in the latest Senate vote, 54 senators voted in his favor.
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