Questions for Harriet Miers

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I have grave doubts about her ability to:

A. Uphold the "separations of power", within the context of the 3 branches of government, considering her fawning over the leader of the Executive Branch, GWB, and the fact that she is his legal counsel.

B. To protect the people, via the Constitution, considering her defense of the wealthy elite and powerful, as a corporate attorney. For example; If your child suffered a debilitaing injury or death, from a hazardous product, Miers would be the attorney defending the corporation that produced the product and John Edwards would be representing your child.

Below is an excellent set of questions that should be asked.


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Ten Questions for Harriet Miers

by MORTON MINTZ



Senate Judiciary Committee members have the opportunity to ask Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to succeed Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, certain bedrock but nervous-making questions that they did not ask--or were perhaps too timid to ask--of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. at the hearings on his nomination to be Chief Justice of the United States.

The questions spring from a conveniently forgotten 1978 Supreme Court ruling and from the declaration in the Fourteenth Amendment that no state shall deprive "any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Here are ten sample questions for the committee to pose to Harriet Miers:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/ten_questions_for_harriet_miers