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To: combjelly who wrote (233777)	5/20/2005 12:32:12 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586073

Justice Owen has been a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court since 1994 and received a well-qualified rating even from the liberal American Bar Association. earnedmedia.org Justice Brown is the first African-American woman to serve as an associate justice on the California Supreme Court and was reelected with 76% of the vote. earnedmedia.org When California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown faced a retention vote in 1998, 76% of Californians voted to keep her on their state's highest court. In San Francisco, perhaps America's most liberal city, 79.4% backed her. Brown won more votes statewide than any of the other three justices up for retention that year--even though she had cast a (dissenting) vote in favor of upholding the state's parental-consent law. humaneventsonline.com Are you saying that the liberal people of California are too stupid to vote? ... Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) ... "You said that you did not find the right to privacy in the express language of the Constitution." "That is correct," said Brown. "Nobody can find it there," said Hatch. "Nobody can find it there," affirmed Brown. "But," said Hatch, "do you agree there is a right to privacy that has now been established by the Supreme Court in Griswold and--" "It is clearly established by the Supreme Court," said Brown. "That is the law." If you want to line up behind Bill Byrd to lynch the minority and women nominees, history will tag you with the correct label of discriminator.