As we predicted, Justice Priscilla Owen will be the test case for the Republican majority to try to break the Democrats’ filibuster of judicial nominees. Eight days ago, we printed an email from a colleague of Justice Owen, who worked with her in a law firm for fourteen years. He wrote, among other things, that in the office, she was so reticent about religion that:
If you had asked me whether she was religious, I would have said “I don
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