Miers' Legal Thinking in the 1990s Reflects a Glint of Liberalism -LAT

[Rose Siding]

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She called for increased funding for legal services for the poor and suggested that taxes might have to be raised to achieve the notion of "justice for all."

She praised the benefits of diversity, called for measures that would send more minority students to law schools, and said that just because a woman was the head of the state bar did not mean that "all unfair barriers for women have been eradicated."

She was upset that although poverty was rising in Texas, impoverished families received a disproportionately small share of welfare and Medicaid benefits.

And she was an unapologetic defender of her profession, even the oft-maligned "trial lawyer."

"Lawyers are about seeking the truth, preserving a system to achieve fairness and justice and protecting the freedom of individuals against the tyranny of the majority view," she wrote.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bar14oct14,0,6929851.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Dhalgren]

1. And as Emperor Kim Il George has said many times:

"Her beliefs won't change. I know her heart and what she stands for ... in twenty years that won't change." Uh...George...uh, can we have a 'do-over'?