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Almost 1,500 days have passed since President Bush announced his first eleven judicial nominees, an exceptionally diverse slate of qualified candidates that even the New York Times said was “notable for its inclusion of women and minorities.” Since that May 9, 2001, day, America has endured a terrorist attack, bestowed iconic status on a gizmo called the iPod, produced eleven of Hollywood’s top-20 all-time blockbusters, and birthed democracy in two long-oppressed regimes. But one thing has persisted: Senate Democrats’ bare-fisted attacks on Texas supreme court justice Priscilla Owen. Justice Owen’s resume is impeccable: top of her law-school class (completing...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com GOP pulls evenin PR battle over nomineesBy Bill SammonTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished May 12, 2005 Key Republicans said yesterday that although Democrats did a better job in the early fight over President Bush's judicial nominees, the GOP has achieved "parity" in the public relations battle.     "We were a little slower on the draw," said a Republican strategist close to the effort. "But we're there now -- at parity with them in terms of mobilization and intensity and breadth and depth of coalition effort."     The strategist said Democrats went into battle mode over judges the day after Mr....

How would you feel if you hired a contractor to build your house and during the day the contractor was busy building it, telling you how great a house it was, and how hard he is working to build you the best house he can, but at night you caught him sneaking around with a lantern trying to set the house on fire. Would you still support him? Well, if the conclusions of Dick Morris in his article: http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/030205.html are correct, that is precisely how President Bush has been behaving toward judicial appointments. The fact is that the "nuclear option"...