Owen Set for Committee Vote on Thursday
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The Dallas Morning News reports:
Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen isn't the anti-abortion activist critics have painted her to be, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday. With her nomination to the federal appellate bench up for a vote in committee Thursday after being stalled for nearly four years, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he has reviewed her rulings on abortion-related cases in Texas and found them evenhanded.
More confirmthem stuff on Justice Owen is here.

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