Kennedy Questions Bush Recess Appointment (Check this guy out)

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites)'s appointment of former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the U.S. Appeals Court during a congressional recess may be unconstitutional, contends Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. snip

Under Bush's recess appointment, Pryor will sit on the 11th Circuit until January 2006. The Atlanta-based court that hears federal appeals from Alabama, Georgia and Florida.


Liberal groups campaigned against Pryor's ascension to the federal appeals court, citing his criticism of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade (news - web sites) decision that said women had a constitutional right to terminate pregnancy. He also came under fire for filing a Supreme Court brief in a Texas sodomy case comparing homosexual acts to "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia."


Pryor was a founder of the Republican Attorneys General Association, which raises money for GOP attorneys general, and led the charge to oust Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, for refusing to abide by federal court orders requiring him to move a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse.

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