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1. Editorial on Priscilla Owen for Federal Judge - Against (IndependentJudiciary.com)
   "Justice Owen reliably votes to throw out jury verdicts favoring workers and consumers against corporate interests and dismisses suits brought by workers for job-related injuries, discrimination and unfair employment practices."
   
   "Justice Owen has taken campaign contributions from law firms and corporations, including Enron and Halliburton, and then, without recusing herself, ruled in their favor when their cases came before her." 5-05

2. Editorial on Priscilla Owen for Federal Judge - Against (National Organization for Women)
   "Enron's political action committee gave Owen $8,600 for her successful Supreme Court bid in 1994. Two years later, Owen wrote the majority opinion that reversed a lower court order and reduced Enron's school taxes by $15 million. Since 1993, Enron contributed $134,058 — more than any other corporation — to Owen and other members of the Texas Supreme Court. A study by Texans for Public Justice found that the court ruled in Enron's favor in five out of six cases involving the company since 1993." 5-05

3. Priscilla Owen for Federal Judge - For and Against (CNN News)
   "To President Bush and other supporters, Priscilla Owen is, in the president's words, 'a woman of integrity ... known to be a fair and impartial judge who strives to interpret the law fairly.' "
   
   "To her opponents, the 50-year-old Texas Supreme Court justice is a 'judicial activist ... (whose) record shows a bias in favor of government secrecy and business interests, and against the environment, victims of discrimination and medical malpractice,' in the words of Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee." 5-05

4. Editorials on Priscilla Owen for Federal Judge (EarthJustice.org)
   Provides Editorials and Commentary from major newspapers. 5-05

5. Editorials on Priscilla Owen for Federal Judge - Against (Save Our Courts)
   "A review of Justice Owen's record to date raises serious questions about her commitment to equal justice and civil rights for all Americans. Justice Owen's consistently conservative legal opinions reflect a judicial activism that falls outside the mainstream of judicial thought and seriously risk the continued vigorous enforcement of critical constitutional and statutory rights in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties." 5-05

6. 02-20-04 Bush Defies Senate and Appoints Rejected Judge (CNN News)
   "After three years of watching Senate Democrats block his judicial nominees, President Bush trumped them for the second time this year by installing Alabama Attorney General William Pryor on the federal appeals court."
   
   "Besides Pickering and Pryor, Democrats also have used filibusters to block Bush's appeals court nominations of Judge Priscilla Owen, Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and judges Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown. Estrada withdrew his nomination in September."
   
   "Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, one of the senior members of the Judiciary Committee, called Bush's going around the Senate 'a flagrant abuse of presidential power.' " " 'This is an outrageous appointment, of a nominee who has questionable commitment to the authority of the Supreme Court and the rule of law,' Kennedy said." 2-04

7. -05-24-05 Senate Confirms Owen as Judge (MSNBC News)
   "The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Priscilla Owen as a federal appellate judge, ending the four-year ordeal of the Texas jurist who was thrust into the center of the partisan battle over President Bush’s judicial nominations." 5-05

8. Editorial: John Roberts Is a Legacy Vote (TheNation.org)
   Provides a progressive view of the nominee for Supreme Court. "In the recent filibuster battle over lower-court nominees, seven Democrats chose the pragmatic preservation of their senatorial prerogatives over pushing the Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown nominations to a test. But in the matter of a replacement for O'Connor, the stakes are higher than with any Supreme Court nomination in history. To Democrats in the Senate--including risk-averse presidential aspirants like Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Evan Bayh--here is the message: This will be a legacy vote." 7-05