President Bush is using his widespread popularity, a result of the easy rout of the Taliban, to shore up a domestic agenda that most voters find too conservative. The latest example of that is Bush's nomination of a right-wing extremist, Charles Pickering, for the federal bench in New Orleans....U.S. jurisprudence came too far in the late 20th century to allow it to lapse back into a time when Pickering's prejudices reigned.