Look At These Poor Women
Crybabies
These poor women want to sit on the federal courts so they can inject their extreme right-wing views into our judiciary and serve their masters on the lunatic fringes of strict judicial constructionism aka: The Federalist Society.
The woman on the left is Priscilla Owens, who as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court was known for hectoring underage girls who came before her requesting permission for an abortion. Her time in private practice was devoted almost entirely to work for the oil and gas industries with little or no experience in criminal or civil matters. Karl Rove served as a campaign consultant on Owen's 1994 judicial election and was paid $250,000 for the privelege. Owens is not well regarded as a justice and is singularly unqualified to sit on a federal court.
The woman next to her is Janice Brown from California. You'd think the daughter of a former sharecropper would be a little more partial to the idea that the Bill of Rights applies to states as well as the federal government, a process known as "incorporation", but ol' Janice doesn't feel that way. No, see in Janice's world blacks would be subjected to whatever vagaries the old South felt like metting out to them and the Federal government would have no say in the process. She also called the New Deal "the triumph of our socialist revolution." Enough said.
Next to her stands another Californian, Carolyn B. Kuhl, who as a Reagan Justice department attorney pushed the Justice department to argue for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and indeed spearheaded the effort. She also headed the effort to allow tax-exempt status for Bob Jones University despite the fact that it discriminated on the basis of race in its admissions process. Her rulings as a California Superior Court judge have been overturned numerous times, like when she said a women getting a mammogram who's doctor invited in a drug salesman to watch the procedure without informing her had "no reasonable expectation of privacy." Bad judge and worse woman.
The filibuster is a tool of democratic governance in the Senate and I for one am proud that Democrats are keeping these extreme rightwing harpies and their male counterparts off our federal courts.
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