[Constitution Restoration Act]

(Yet Another) Conservative Group Urges Bush to Withdraw Miers Nomination

(CNSNews.com) - A conservative legal group Tuesday announced it is withholding its support of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and called on the president to withdraw the nomination.

The Liberty Counsel said President Bush should keep his campaign promise to appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. "The only way to remedy a disastrous decision is to redo it," said Mathew Staver, president and general counsel of the group.

"I am terribly disappointed with President Bush's decision to nominate to the Supreme Court someone who operates under the radar. Bush has turned his finest hour into a political debacle that threatens to split his conservative base," said Staver.

"The reverberations from his decision to nominate Harriet Miers have political consequences, if not corrected, that will haunt the Republican Party for some time," said Staver. "I didn't litigate nonstop for five weeks for a stealth nomination.

This is what 'advice and consent' means (Ann Coulter)

I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country.

Unfortunately for Bush, he could nominate his Scottish terrier Barney, and some conservatives would rush to defend him, claiming to be in possession of secret information convincing them that the pooch is a true conservative and listing Barney's many virtues – loyalty, courage, never jumps on the furniture ...

Harriet Miers went to Southern Methodist University Law School, which is not ranked at all by the serious law school reports and ranked No. 52 by US News and World Report. Her greatest legal accomplishment is being the first woman commissioner of the Texas Lottery.

CWA: What We Need to Know About Harriet Miers

“Nothing we have seen or heard establishes Miss Miers' knowledge of and experience in constitutional law. Much is made of her leadership within the American Bar Association, an organization that is hardly known for opposing the ‘living theory’ of constitutional interpretation and judicial activism,” LaRue concluded.

“While we share Miss Miers’ evangelical faith, we find the continual emphasis on it by her supporters to be inappropriate and patronizing,” LaRue said. “It offends the Constitution.”

 

http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/paul/lyrics/hermanshermits/wonder~1.html

 

(WHAT A) WONDERFUL COURT

 

Don't know much judicial philosphy

Don't know much fetology

Don't know much about poly science book

Don't know much about the Con Law I took

 

But I do know that I trust you

And I know that if you trust me too

What a wonderful court this would be

 

Don't know much ideology

Don't know much controversy

Don't know much about a paper trail

Don't know what a litmus test is for

 

But I know that SCOTUS RULES!

And if this one could be confirmed by you

What a wonderful court this would be

 

I don't claim to be a "stealth candidate"

But I'm trying to be

Maybe my being a " stealth candidate" baby

I can win your trust for me

 

( Is Harriet really from Alice’s Looking-Glass Land

And on, and on, and on, and on it goes...

Only Rove’s catless grin really knows

What A Supreme Queen of Hearts She May Be! )

 

 

 

[dirtboy]

But no, our Fearless Leader said, ‘To hell with the Constitution!’

You know, I'm getting sick of this crap from both sides.

Bush said nothing of the sort.

He instead says she is an originalist - which means he says that she will faithfully interpret the Constitution.

There is nothing wrong with a sound and reasoned debate as to whether Bush's judgement is sound in that regard, whether Miers is a indeed an orginalist, whether someone who hasn't been a judge is fit to be on SCOTUS, or whether she is the right person for the job.

But we need to return this debate into some level of civility and intellect, because right now, for all the name-calling and piss-poor logic, I can't tell FR from some of the left-wing forums I've posted on.

[rdb3]

Nicholas Stix. Why is that name familiar?

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[indcons]

Ping

[JoJo Gunn]

I can't say I care all that much about Meirs, but it's not enough to warrant an estrogen crazed screed either.

[auboy]

Where is the Magic City Morning Star published and what is its circulation?

[LibLieSlayer]

This sounds so familiar... let's see... where have I heard this before?

"HE BETRAYED OUR COUNTRY"

Wait, I remember... it was that bloviating puffer fish, al gore!!!

LLS

[Mike Darancette]

Seminar poster or Uber-Con, you decide.

[cardinal4]

This whole debate is getting silly now. P*ssed at GWB? Dont vote for him!