harriet miers

A step forward for Congress, a step back for the unitary executive: This is going higher, of course. But John Bates is not your ordinary liberal activist judge. He was Deputy Independent Counsel for the Whitewater investigation. He ruled that the President could sign a bill Congress had not...

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Okay, here is my prediction for Harriet Miers and the aftermath. First the facts as they stand. No one likes this woman. Liberals don't like her because she won't stand on the rooftops pldging to support Roe V. Wade, conservatives don't like her because she refuses to stand on the rooftops...

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051020/1065386.asp I am surprised that "the most qualified person" the president could find is weak on Constitutional law. But don't worry, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Spector said that despite strong conservative opposition to Miers, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers pledged support in 1989 for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, according to material given to the Senate on Tuesday. As a candidate for the Dallas city council, Miers also...

According to the Wall Street Journal: http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007415

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1012055miers1.html Smoking gun has the little notes between GB and Miers. How sad that we have to sift through such banality in order to get insight into the mindset of a potientail justice...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/12/miers.ap/index.html You don't have to have any experience as a judge to be appointed to the Supremem Court, but you must have a good knowledge of the Bible?

Found this at Panda's thumb: http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/10/harriet_miers_a.html Harriet Miers has given 10 percent to 12 percent of her earnings — “if not more” — to the evangelical Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, where she has been a congregant for about 25 years. The...

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers (aged 60) was recently quoted as having said that "the president is the most brilliant man I have ever met." Can anyone here provide a rational explanation for that statement?

I understand why people disagreed with my contention that Roberts did the people of the US by basically taking the fifth. Here we have another, this time with no record. Stealth candidate anyone? She probably won't comment on anything coming up (which is everything) she won't comment on...