If this is indicative of the quality of jurisprudence we can expect from Bush's judicial picks, we're all in trouble:

A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a ruling issued last year by U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab after ruling that the judge had copied his opinion, nearly word-for-word, from a memorandum written by one of the attorneys in the case. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Schwab made only two substantive changes to the memo, other than minor changes for grammar and style, then signed it as his own opinion.

In doing so, the court said, Schwab failed to show that he put the necessary thought and jurisprudence into the ruling. The appeals court ordered the lower court to rethink its ruling, which had dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man whose daughter was murdered in 2001 by a man on probation for a related crime against the same family. The father sued Westmoreland County probation officers for not doing enough to keep the killer, Charles Koschalk, away from Annette Bright.

Schwab's opinion to dismiss the case was taken from a "proposed opinion" submitted by attorneys for the county. He said in a written statement that he wouldn't make a similar mistake again.” ....Schwab issued the ruling eight months after President Bush appointed him to the bench in January 2003.