Critics and a Senator Raise Ante for Miers

[DaveColorado]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-miers27oct27,0,3538156.story?page=1&track=morenews&coll=la-story-footer

Critics and a Senator Raise Ante for Miers
By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — In new signs of eroding support for Harriet E. Miers, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman sent her a sharply worded list of questions Wednesday on constitutional law, and one of the nation's leading grass-roots evangelical organizations called for the withdrawal of her Supreme Court nomination.

Concerned Women for America, one of the nation's largest Christian advocacy groups, changed its "wait-and-see" position after reading speeches she gave in the early 1990s in which she supported, among other things, "the freedom of the individual woman's right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion."


The speeches "indicate a radical feminist worldview, a penchant for judicial activism, race and sex quotas, a liberal characterization of the abortion debate and government spending, and an inability to articulate her positions clearly," the group said in a statement.

"We do not think there is anything she could say at her hearing that would satisfy our concerns," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America, said in an interview.

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[radfringe]

1. bush* won't release info

(what else is new?)

many repugs are refusing to drink the kool-aid on Miers and bush* is up to his butt in problems and needs a big diversion

my money is on a Miers nomination withdrawal before the November hearing followed by repug spin on how it's hard to find a nominee who is willing to go through a nomination confirmation process that has degraded to a "gotcha" / "witchhunt" mentality....

meanwhile - indictments will be spun as being "wrong" because it distracts bush* from doing his job during wartime...

[DaveColorado]

2. This is pretty interesting

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9258/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm


Part of me hopes she makes it to her hearings, does well, and is confirmed if she really believes some of these things. If so, this is the best we can hope for from this president.

Of course she said it some 11 or so years ago, but this was also after she had switched parties and was "born again."

I think the fundies have reason to be concerned about her views, and liberals and thinking people have reason to be concerned with her competency and independence from Bush on issues like executive power to detain people without trial and counsel.

[Dhalgren]

4. She seems like most of the other Republicans in power:

she'll say anything she has to say in order to win. In '89 she said she opposed women's rights in order to acquire a seat on a city board; in '93 she is speaking to a group of powerful, educated women-professionals and she said she is for women's rights. She and the Publicans like her are not "born again", they are "the continuously reborn". They become brand new people whenever they need to pull the wool over somebody's eyes...

[leesa]

3. Why are we wasting time on this woman?