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May 22nd, 2005 at 9:54 am by Susie

Priscilla Owens was just rated “poor” by the Houston Bar Association by almost half of the respondents. She had the lowest rating on the Texas Supreme Court of any justice.

Yoo hoo, L.A. Times?

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on 22 May 2005 at 11:06 am1james richardson

wonder if the msm or congress will pick this one up…..
on 22 May 2005 at 11:39 am2grascarp

In fairness to Owens …only 10% of the entire HBA responded in that survey and it was noted that the legal-types only respond to jurists, etc. that they actually had contact with.
on 22 May 2005 at 4:11 pm3Frederick

I don’t see how grascarp’s points make the survey less significant — rather the opposite, I think. 350 attorneys rated Owen — that’s not a trivial number. Quite appropriately, attorneys only rated judges they’d appeared before. Had everyone voted, most would have been just voting on the basis of reputation, rather than their own experiences. It’s very telling that lawyers who have actually appeared before Owen hold such a low opinion of her.
on 22 May 2005 at 6:21 pm4no thanks

Wait, stop the presses! Lawyers skew liberal? Wow, this is a revelation. I guess her top-of-her-class, top-score-on-the-bar means that these lawyers who responded to the survey were basically saying they don’t like her…….um, I guess the word I’m searching for is….POLITICS.
on 23 May 2005 at 1:53 pm5Swing State Project

Nuclear Option: Houston Bar Grades Owen “Poor”

Hat tip to Suburban Guerilla.Priscilla Owens was just rated â€œpoorâ€? by the Houston Bar Association by almost half of the respondents. She had the lowest rating on the Texas Supreme Court of any justice. To be exact, 39.5% rated her “outstanding,” …
on 23 May 2005 at 11:29 pm6james richardson

no thanks: i don’t think it’s her politics, but her intepretation of the constitution, the bill of rights, and her past examples of “new law”. she is not fond of the supreme’s “incorporation doctrine” (she said in a lecture at Pepperline Bible), which incorporates the bill of rights and the amendments into consideration on constitutional issues brought before the court.

without the incorporation doctrine, though CONGRESS “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”, states and local communities could due JUST THAT legally, in violation of the 14th amendment.

qualifications are more than just test scores. that’s what barbara boxer was trying to explain to condi rice, who took her inquiries as an “attack on her integrity.” but that’s another post.

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