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...General Alberto Gonzales, who they believe might be too moderate. If Bush picks a woman, there's Judge Edith Clement of New Orleans who lost her home in Hurricane Katrina. Bush passed her over last time but her being a storm victim might now give her a certain elan. Priscilla Owen or Edith Jones, both circuit court judges, would please conservatives but would rally Democrats. One White House official says that there's close scrutiny of Larry Thompson, who served as Number two in the Ashcroft Justice department. As African-American, Thompson's nomination might help ease racial tensions...
...Thomas Jefferson. This year we decided to dedicate an issue to a man who may not have been there at America's founding but sealed its character by prosecuting a civil war over the scourge of slavery. "Lincoln has long been a favorite subject for historians," says executive editor Priscilla Painton, who conceived and supervised the package, "but this year, with a wealth of new research emerging, there's a fresh passion to get past the icon and find the real character...
...judgeships, Bush has focused on ridding courts of “activism from the bench” by appointing his own dogmatic picks. Recently confirmed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a protracted fight over Democrats’ use of the filibuster to block her confirmation, Judge Priscilla Owen typifies the kind of far-right judge Bush is willing to back. Her extremely conservative views on abortion and consumer rights are hard enough for an ideologically divided country to stomach. And her record of “unconscionable … judicial activism...
...filibuster may sound like little more than a bit of parliamentary housekeeping, but, given the tactic's long tradition in the Senate, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott christened the move the "nuclear option." Frist ignited the fuse last week, bringing up the long-stalled nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Ostensibly, the fight is over a handful of long-blocked appellate court nominations, but both sides acknowledge that it is really about how the Senate will approach any upcoming vacancies on the Supreme Court, the first of which may open within...
After dinner, those in attendance applauded the senior honorees—Leyla R. Bravo ’05, Martha I. Casillas ’05, Claudia I. García ’05, Priscilla J. Orta ’05, and Omar A. Urquidez...