Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 18, 2003
Hand Picked
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - President George W. Bush's renomination of Charles Pickering Sr. and Priscilla Owen for the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals ensures that there will be continued, intense political fights over the judiciary. Bush could have chosen the path of consensus and selected moderates that both Democrats and Republicans could support. Instead, Bush chose to renominate Pickering and Owen, both of whom were rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Forum Column
By Erwin Chemerinsky
President George W. Bush's renomination of Charles Pickering Sr. and Priscilla Owen for the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals ensures that there will be con...
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