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Bush says race-based school policy flawed Stand on landmark Michigan case may not please friends, foes 01/16/2003 By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - President Bush weighed in on a landmark Supreme Court case Wednesday, saying he supports racial diversity but opposes racial quotas, a middle-ground approach that may anger both sides in the debate over affirmative action. "As we work to address the wrong of racial prejudice, we must not use means that create another wrong, and thus perpetuate our divisions," Mr. Bush said as his lawyers prepared a legal brief asking the high court...

Owen, Pickering tapped again Bush nominates jurists Democrats rejected for appeals court 01/08/2003 By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - President Bush renominated Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen and Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering on Tuesday for seats on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rekindling a dispute with Senate Democrats, who rejected the nominees last year. Justice Owen and Judge Pickering were among 31 judicial candidates submitted on the first day of the new Congress. While Justice Owen's defenders had vowed her name would be swiftly re-offered, Judge Pickering's future had appeared less certain....