07/21/2002 Archived Entry: "A myDD prediction:"

The very, very conservative judicial activist Priscilla Owen will go down in defeat, 10-9 in committee. Even Ron Kirk has come out against her, and Feinstein will not defer to Hutchinson.

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Enron Priscilla does not deserve promotion. I am sick and tired of the Free Congress Foundation ranting that it was not the fault of Priscilla, but the elected system. Yet, the Free Congress Foundation has not campaigned against the election of judges. Why? Because death penalty proponents are in bed with Enron folks and others contributing to the judges campaign and the FCF does not want to be "soft on crime." Let me remind FCF that in Virginia we have no judicial elections, and yet death penalty is carried out. Priscilla's problem is money and judicial incest which elected system establishes in a state.

Posted by G.C. Raj @ 07/23/2002 01:08 PM PST

This is Bushs' fault. He keeps nominating far-right judges like he got 60% of the vote. Daschle needs to stop these nominations.

Posted by TOM @ 07/23/2002 01:55 PM PST

Everybody says that Owen is the product of the Texas elected system. The latest in the chorus: Washington Post. Then, my question is very simple: What did Owen do to change the system? She indeed benefited from this system of judicial incest (not inquest), which essentially shuts out brilliant out of state legal minds from making a career in Texas. Alabama has a similar system of judicial incest. The Texas GOP continues to support this system of judicial incest which is not good. Please look at its 2000 Platform. After all it was the Texan business incest (not instinct) that gave us the Enron debacle. I think we should stop confirming Texas state judges irrespective of ideology unless they like the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court are actively fighting the elected system. Priscilla Owen should be defeated on her own merits. However, it could go either way.

Posted by G.C. Raj @ 07/24/2002 07:13 AM PST