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To: JeffA who wrote (47516)	5/20/2005 2:42:34 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

That's correct. There's more. Alberto Gonzales, yep that's Bush's AG said that Owens engaged "unconscionable . . . judicial activism." She ignored THE LAW and substituted her own personal views. That is sheer incompetence. Didn't know that did you? Thought so. You KNOW NOTHING and seek even more ignorance. That's why you're a rightwinger.

To: JeffA who wrote (47516)	5/20/2005 2:48:22 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

There's more on Owens JudicialFascistExtremistActivist She's CORRUPT you dufus. Did you know this? Of course you didn't. You know absolutely nothing which is why you are incapable of independent thought. All you are is a mindless hamster for rightwing corruption and criminality. =========== " The conflicts this created were on full display in the case of Priscilla Owen, now a Bush nominee to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. When she first decided in the early 1990s that she wanted to run for a spot on the Texas Supreme Court, she called on Ralph Wayne, president of the Texas Civil Justice League, a trade group formed by the state's manufacturing, transportation, and energy industries. "I said, 'Have you talked to Karl Rove?'" Wayne remembers. "She said, 'No, but I think I should.'" After Rove met with Wayne and Owen, he signed on, giving the candidate the seal of approval from the state's corporate establishment. The money followed. Owen raised $1.1 million for her successful 1994 state Supreme Court campaign, with a record 21 percent coming directly from the business community and much more coming from corporate defense lawyers. Judge Owen later repaid the favor, in part, by lending her endorsement to a Texas Civil Justice League fundraising appeal. By the time Rove was done, the last Democrat had been purged from the Texas Supreme Court. "The cases all started getting decided anti-consumer, on the side of big business," says Phil Hardberger, a retired Texas appellate court judge who is a Democrat. Jury verdicts, once embraced by the Democratic court, were now overturned or reduced. By the 1997-98 term, defendants were winning 69 percent of the time, and insurance companies, doctors, and pharmaceutical firms were winning nearly every case. Owen consistently distinguished herself as one of the conservative court's most strident conservatives. In one decision, Owen argued unsuccessfully in support of a water-quality exemption tailored for an Austin land developer who had given $2,500 to her campaign. The court majority dismissed her contention as "nothing more than inflammatory rhetoric." motherjones.com