Retired federal judge Charles Pickering Sr. will visit Greenwood on Friday to sign his book, "Supreme Chaos: The Politics of Judicial Confirmation & the Culture War."
Pickering is scheduled to appear at 5 p.m. at Turnrow Book Co. on Howard Street.
"We're excited to have such a distinguished public officials and give people the opportunity to check out the book store," said Jamie Kornegay, one of Turnrow's proprietors.
President George Bush appointed the 68-year-old Pickering to the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit during a congressional recess in 2004.
Pickering served until Congress reconvened in 2005, then announced he wouldn't seek confirmation.
Pickering had already faced a showdown in the Senate when Bush appointed him in 2001. He failed to pass confirmation in 2002, blocked by a Democratic-led filibuster.
It is the confirmation process and the politics involved that is the subject of Pickering's book.
He even devotes a full chapter to the role of the media in the process.
Recently, at a talk in Jackson, Pickering said sometimes the media get facts wrong because of the bias against conservatives.
In "Supreme Chaos: The Politics of Judicial Confirmation & the Culture War" he claims a biased media misrepresented his character and what he had achieved during his career.
Furthermore, Pickering calls for reform in the judicial confirmation process.
At one point in the book he writes, "If a long-term, permanent solution is to be found to the judicial confirmation quagmire, it must be something that is fair and reasonable to both Democrats and Republicans; both sides must have meaningful input. The continued escalation of this battle will do good to no one, especially the American people."
