SHE'S NOT RUNNING FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL

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SHE'S NOT RUNNING FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL

The Fox News profile of Priscilla Owen (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156892,00.html) , the judge
who Frist will use to detonate the nuclear option, points out she's "a
Sunday school teacher." Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) also used this
tactic on the floor yesterday, "reciting a long list of achievements
and civic works, including Justice Owen's serving as a Sunday school
teacher to preschoolers." This would be relevant information if Owen were
running for federal Sunday School. However, she has been nominated to
the federal courts; it's her judicial record
(http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=616769#1)
that needs scrutiny.


As Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) pointed out: "This is
not a debate about a lovely person. This is a debate about a record and
judicial decisions, and about whether or not that record merits
promoting someone to a lifetime appointment." As a judge, Owen is a judicial
activist with a long record of extremist decisions
(http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/dfiles/file_151.pdf) ; her own hometown paper,
for example, described her as "all too willing to bend the law to fit
her views
(http://www.independentjudiciary.com/news/clip.cfm?NewsClipID=147) ,
rather than the reverse."