More Omissions In The Washington Post

In a front page article in today’s Post about the recess appointment of William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Mike Allen writes that in 1997, his first year as Alabama attorney general, Pryor “invoked God’s will while speaking at a Christian Coalition rally to defend a state judge who posted the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.”

Fair enough. What is not fair is to ignore altogether what happened on that front since then. Pryor, as attorney general, insisted that Judge Roy Moore was obligated to follow federal court orders, and he represented the state in the successful effort to remove Judge Moore from office. Moreover, as Terry Eastland has pointed out in The Weekly Standard, Pryor has also made an impressive argument (in a speech to the Federalist Society at Harvard) that Judge Moore was as wrong in his theology of defiance as he was in the law.

Allen concludes his article by quoting Sen. Kerry’s charge that Pryor “has a history of partisanship and pursuing an ideological agenda,” and in fact his entire article reads more like a press release from the Kerry camp than a balanced news story.

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  1. Richard Nieporent February 21, 2004 at 11:45 am | | Reply

    and in fact his entire article reads more like a press release from the Kerry camp than a balanced news story

    You mean it’s not a press release from the Kerry camp? You could have fooled me.

    As far as the Washington Post, NY Times, etc. is concerned, a balanced news story means you get quotes from more that one source that attack republicans or conservatives.

    Senate records show that presidents have used recess appointments to seat appellate judges only a handful of times in 30 years.

    And just what does the Senate record show about filibustering of judicial nominees?

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