Rove Guided Career of Judicial Nominee in Filibuster Fight

[Syrinx]

WASHINGTON, May 15 - Justice Priscilla R. Owen of the Texas Supreme
Court declined a chance to be the court's first female chief justice
last year so she could remain one of President Bush's nominees to a
federal appeals court, Texas lawyers and political figures said in
recent interviews.

The decision was one of three crucial moments in her judicial career
in which she seemed to have been guided by the hand of Karl Rove, Mr.
Bush's chief political strategist.

Justice Owen, along with Justice Janice Rogers Brown of the California
Supreme Court, is now at the center of the partisan battle in the
Senate over changing the filibuster rules. Senator Bill Frist of
Tennessee, the Republican leader, said Friday that the two state
justices, whose confirmations have been blocked by Democrats, would be
brought to the Senate floor as part of the fight over changing the
rules.

Justice Owen was, by all accounts, a respected but little-known lawyer
in Houston in 1994 when she was first elected to the State Supreme
Court with Mr. Rove's support and tutelage. Her experience up to then
largely involved obscure legal cases involving pipelines and federal
energy regulations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/politics/16owen.html

[realFedUp]

1. Rove can't be just doing this for a civil servant wage....

maybe someone should figure out what
Rove is really making moneywise...

[Pirate Smile]

2. NYT: Rove Guided Career of Judicial Nominee in Filibuster Fight

WASHINGTON, May 15 - Justice Priscilla R. Owen of the Texas Supreme Court declined a chance to be the court's first female chief justice last year so she could remain one of President Bush's nominees to a federal appeals court, Texas lawyers and political figures said in recent interviews.

The decision was one of three crucial moments in her judicial career in which she seemed to have been guided by the hand of Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political strategist.



Justice Owen, along with Justice Janice Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court, is now at the center of the partisan battle in the Senate over changing the filibuster rules. Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican leader, said Friday that the two state justices, whose confirmations have been blocked by Democrats, would be brought to the Senate floor as part of the fight over changing the rules.

Justice Owen was, by all accounts, a respected but little-known lawyer in Houston in 1994 when she was first elected to the State Supreme Court with Mr. Rove's support and tutelage. Her experience up to then largely involved obscure legal cases involving pipelines and federal energy regulations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/politics/16owen.html?

[sundancekid]

3. well, not so obsure ... let's ask Enron about her energy-related help

http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/owens.html

Enron's political action committee gave Owen $8,600 for her successful Supreme Court bid in 1994. Two years later, Owen wrote the majority opinion that reversed a lower court order and reduced Enron's school taxes by $15 million. Since 1993, Enron contributed $134,058 — more than any other corporation — to Owen and other members of the Texas Supreme Court. A study by Texans for Public Justice found that the court ruled in Enron's favor in five out of six cases involving the company since 1993.

[Erika]

4. Owen is Enron dirty. That's about the dirtiest you can get

No, she should not be approved. She's just another corporatist who could care less about the working class. Dump the broad.

[maddezmom]

5. kick to combine

[rodeodance]

Rove Guided Career of Judicial Nominee in Filibuster Fight

this slimeball seems to be everywhere!!!


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/politics/16owen.html

> Rove Guided Career of Judicial Nominee in Filibuster Fight
> By Neil A. Lewis
> The New York Times
>
> Monday 16 May 2005
>
> Washington, May 15 - Justice Priscilla R. Owen of the Texas Supreme Court declined a chance to be the court's first female chief justice last year so she could remain one of President Bush's nominees to a federal appeals court, Texas lawyers and political figures said in recent interviews.
>
> The decision was one of three crucial moments in her judicial career in which she seemed to have been guided by the hand of Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political strategist.......
>
>
> Justice Owen was, by all accounts, a respected but little-known lawyer in Houston in 1994 when she was first elected to the State Supreme Court with Mr. Rove's support and tutelage. Her experience up to then largely involved obscure legal cases involving pipelines and federal energy regulations.
>
> At the time, Mr. Rove was helping to make over the Texas Supreme Court from a bench populated by Democrats widely viewed as favorable to the plaintiffs' bar - the lawyers who sue companies - to the business-friendly Republican stronghold it is today........

[LiberalNerd]

6. you're right

this bastard seems to have his grubby little hands in everything, and the majority of people don't seem to care.