Alliance for Justice Report on Fifth Circuit Nominee Priscilla Owen

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In my more cynical moments, I suggest that, just as sports stadiums are now named after corporations, judicial seats are soon to follow. In that vein, I believe that Justice Owen could well fill the Exxon/Mobil or Wal-Mart seat on the Fifth Circuit. Justice Owen is the type of judge who can ignore facts – when it helps corporations to do so – yet then rail against the failure of her fellow Texas Supreme Court colleagues to pay more attention to the facts when she wants the court to stop a minor from getting an abortion… Justice Owen is only a judge because she was swept into office in the Republican sweep of 1994. There are many fine Republican jurists in this state, but Justice Owen is not one of them.