Left Effort to Bork Justice Owen

[RomaRoz]

President Bush nominated the Texas Supreme Court JusticePriscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is up for a seat on the same court to which Judge Charles Pickering was nominated, and like Pickering, her opponents have been using half-truths and outright lies to misrepresent her character and her record.
That record is one any nominee would be proud of. Owen received a unanimous "Well Qualified" rating from American Bar Association, the highest possible from a source that Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy calls "the gold standard by which judicial candidates are judged." She has the support of 15 past presidents of the Texas Bar.
Texas has a system in which judges are elected in partisan elections. They're allowed to campaign - in fact, they have to if they want the job - and they are both legally and ethically allowed to accept contributions. That's the way Texans want it.
Owen, though, has been an outspoken advocate for reform. She doesn't believe there should be partisan elections, she wants reform of the contribution system, and she even voluntarily pledged to limit campaign contributions during her first campaign. Even one of her critics, Texans for public justice, has acknowledged that when it comes to what she actually does, she is in the mainstream of Texas contribution laws. A study by Texans for Public Justice found that there is a disturbing correlation between Owen’s donors and the lawyers and litigants who have had legal matters in her court.
Even so, these left-wing groups - the pro-abortion organizations, People for the American Way, Alliance for Justice, and all the small fish they've brought in from Texas stand together against her.

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[JohnnyPissoff]

Yep looks like it. Guess the Neocons are starting to run scared. Better crank out the old propaganda machine.

Even so, these left-wing groups - the pro-abortion organizations, People for the American Way, Alliance for Justice, and all the small fish they've brought in from Texas stand together against her.

These Imperialists seem to forget; all the small fish are the people.

- Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

- Mr Bush was quoted as saying: "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on"

^ Says it all don't it?