[DallasMike]

There will be many who disagree, but I see this as a feather in Miers' cap. Where would the Democrats be if it weren't for trial lawyers clogging our courts with lame cases?

       

       

 

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[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

She gets better and better!

[fooman]

I have the same concerns about like everyone else, but she is growing on me, slowly. I also think that the ICC stuff was debunked too.

[Codeflier]

This actually makes me like her a little.

[colorcountry]

She suggested they were "greedy" and had "brought shame" on Texas.

I can't say I disagree with her here.

[Dog Gone]

It's not judicial activism for a court to limit attorney's fees, especially when they can reach the billions of dollars as in the tobacco suits.

That is not legislating from the bench, no matter how her opponents might try to twist it.

Yes, she keeps looking better and better.

[Yo-Yo]

She pressed the future president to veto legislation that would have blocked the Texas Supreme Court from limiting attorney fees.

Either this article was poorly written, I'm as dumb as a box of rocks, or a little of both. It sounds to me as if Miers was lobbying against a law that would have prohibited the Texas Supreme Court from limiting attorney fees, presumably in those lucrative class-action suits. In other words, if Bush signed the bill, lawyers could charge whatever they wished in class action lawsuits, but if he didn't sign it then the state Supreme Court could have limited those fees to something reasonable.

Since in some class action lawsuits the plaintiffs end up with a coupon worth $10 off their next purchase while the lawfirms make off with millions, it sounds like a good thing to me.

[Raycpa]

What a bunch of crap. This article tries to paint Miers as legislating from the bench when in fact the veto is anything but that.

If she had petitioned the court to legislate then that would be something BUT she petitioned the Governor, an elected official to use his constitutional power to veto.

Freepers who glom unto this obviously twisted view should refrain from calling themselves freepers.

[Raycpa]

Before I forget.


Bush vetoed something?

[protest1]

"Miers unleashed a verbal assault on trial lawyers who typically file lawsuits and whose cases sometimes land in the U.S. Supreme Court, where Bush now has nominated her to serve. She suggested they were "greedy" and had "brought shame" on Texas.

Hey! she has been saying and acting on what we all knew!!!

The sooner she is on the Supreme Court the better.