Harry Reid: “There will be a lot more said about Priscilla Owen, but I think a fairly good indication of the kind of judge she is…”

“There will be a lot more said about Priscilla Owen, but I think a fairly good indication of the kind of judge she is should come from the Attorney General of the United States who says that her unconscionable activism is replete through her opinions. I assume he knows what it means. I am confident he does. He is a brilliant man. ``Shockingly unjust, unscrupulous''--those are not the words of the Senate Judiciary Committee, not some special interest group; those are the words of the Attorney General of the United States about Priscilla Owen. And she has had a vote here on the Senate floor. Janice Rogers Brown, I am sure she has come from nothing to something. I think that is good. That is the way America should be. But before anyone starts crowing about the vote in California, she didn't have an opponent. It is a Missouri system. She had no opponent. Her opinions, if they weren't on such serious matters, would be laughable--seriously, laughable. The California Supreme Court is made up of seven justices; six of them are Republicans. She has dissented, in the last 6 years alone, 31 different times. Among other things, she has said: Supreme Court decisions upholding New Deal protections, like the minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek, are, in her words, ``the triumph of our own socialist revolution.'' Tell someone working at General Motors, tell someone working at Titanium Metals in Henderson, NV, that the 40-hour workweek is part of the socialist revolution.…”