No votes on either the nomination of Justice Owen or a potential rules change were anticipated before next week.

Justice Owen was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1991.

Justice Owen is an opponent of abortion rights for minors without their parents' permission.

Justice Owen's nomination is likely to bring the abortion debate into play.

Justice Owen, 47, could not be reached for comment.

There are serious questions about Justice Owen's willingness to enforce the law when it does not match her ideology.

Justice Owen has also shown a disturbing lack of sensitivity to judicial ethics.

Justice Owen said that language was cited with approval by a majority in another case two years later.

You also assert that Justice Owen has "substituted her own views" for the law.

You also attack Justice Owen's "lack of sensitivity to judicial ethics."