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Executive Session

Date: May 18, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Judicial Branch Reproduction


EXECUTIVE SESSION -- (Senate - May 18, 2005)

NOMINATION OF PRISCILLA RICHMAN OWEN TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I will rebut something that my friend from Virginia, Senator Allen, said about Janice Rogers Brown. He said she was in the mainstream. This is a woman who has served on the California Supreme Court that is made up of six Republicans and one Democrat. She has dissented a third of the time because her Republican friends on that court are not radical enough for her. Thirty-one times she stood alone on the side of a rapist, on the side of energy companies against the consumers, against women who were seeking to get contraception. It goes on and on--against workers. She said it was fine for Latinos to have racial slurs used against them in the workplace.

This is a woman with an inspiring personal life story. But it is what she has done to other people's lives that makes her far out of the mainstream.

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