“Priscilla Owen, a former oil and gas attorney, has consistently ruled in favor of big business and against working people. She took contributions from Enron and Halliburton and ruled in their favor. Her decisions have been called 'an unconscionable act of judicial activism' by her former colleague and now Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and as 'nothing more than inflammatory rhetoric' by a majority of her colleagues on the Texas Supreme Court. Even Republican Senator and then Justice John Cornyn said her decision in a medical malpractice case was contrary to the Texas constitution. I question her ability to set her personal beliefs aside and follow the Constitution when deciding the important issues of our time. We need judges who make legal decisions and not political decrees from the bench.

“As a Senator, I have a Constitutional obligation to withhold my consent for such a nominee.”

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