Ed Meese

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, who wrote the foreword to Supreme Chaos, spoke recently at Campbell University's Federalist Society and discussed the politicization of the federal courts.

Civil Rights Commission

Bobby Harrison writes more about the civil rights museum commission. And here is an article about it in the Neshoba Democrat.

FRC - Values Voter Summit

Judge Pickering and others spoke at this year's Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit" in Washington DC. BPNews article --- Truth and Justice Blog

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Commission

Governor Barbour announced Thursday that former Mississippi Supreme Court justice Reuben Anderson and former federal appeals court judge Charles Pickering will cochair a commission to establish a Mississippi civil rights museum.

Wallace hearing could be Pickering redux

Mike Wallace was picked by the President to fill Judge Pickering's seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and some are predicting his hearing could be a "replay of brawl over Pickering nomination." Wallace's hearing will be on September 19 or September 26.

Two Things

Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America has a piece in Human Events about judges and mentions Pickering among others: Winning the War Requires Winning on Judges.

President Bush chooses the son of a Turkish immigrant for the federal bench in Mississippi - we'll see if the left thinks that qualifies as diversity.