Miers' Answer Raises Questions ( Proof; She's a dumbass)

[elehhhhna]

Miers' Answer Raises Questions
L A Times ^ | 10/22/2005 | David G. Savage,


WASHINGTON — Asked to describe the constitutional issues she had worked on during her legal career, Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers had relatively little to say on the questionnaire she sent to the Senate this week.

And what she did say left many constitutional experts shaking their heads.

At one point, Miers described her service on the Dallas City Council in 1989. When the city was sued on allegations that it violated the Voting Rights Act, she said, "the council had to be sure to comply with the proportional representation requirement of the Equal Protection Clause."

But the Supreme Court repeatedly has said the Constitution's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws" does not mean that city councils or state legislatures must have the same proportion of blacks, Latinos and Asians as the voting population.

"That's a terrible answer. There is no proportional representation requirement under the equal protection clause," said New York University law professor Burt Neuborne, a voting rights expert. "If a first-year law student wrote that and submitted it in class, I would send it back and say it was unacceptable."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-miers22oct22,0,1244386.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[louis-t]

1. Hence, the recommendation that she take a 'crash course'

in Constitutional law. Why don't they just nominate a first year law student?

[ComerPerro]

2. That answer sounds deliberate. It sounds like they are trying to

imply the word "quota", a word that always rallies and unites the neo-fascists, the born-against, and the racists with you average, Joe sixpack Republican. It lets them feel victimized and powerless.

"On no! Racial quotas!"

[bluedawg12]

3. Hubris of nominating an anti-intellectual just because of her "faith"

The appalling abuse of wh power.

[arwalden]

4. She Needs To Read This....

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764508865/qid=1129997550/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6386321-0460848?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[sandyd921]

5. Yup, and maybe this too

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html:dunce:

[abbeyco]

6. Was Scarriet a C student too?

Just like her teen-crush idol, shrub?

[elehhhhna]

8. Harriet Liars. She's gotta be one of Bush's secret drinkin buddies.

It would explain the hair and makeup.

[nookiemonster]

9. Yep. Saucemonster if I ever saw one.

:beer:

n/t

[hopein08]

7. They pretty much did send it back for a do-over...

She said she's going to submit more details and Specter & Leahy said they are waiting for more. This is really quite sad.