Posted on 10/24/2005 9:33:50 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
John Roberts enraged some conservatives because he provided pro bono legal assistance to supporters of equal rights for homosexuals.
But Harriet Miers has helped gay rights advocates and their ideological soul mates on the left get something more valuable than advice: cold hard cash.
Already savaged by conservatives for insufficient fealty to the cause, Miers now faces a possible high-tech lynching for uppity women because of her virtually unnoticed but longtime support for one of the left's most lucrative bait-and-switch efforts: Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts or IOLTA. This innocuous sounding program ostensibly funds legal services for the poor but more often than not makes any American who leaves money with lawyers an unwitting donor to a panoply of left-wing advocates, including a California group that sued to overturn the state's parental consent law for abortion, a gay organization that tried to force the organizers of St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston to include a contingent of gay marchers, and a Texas outfit that sued to disqualify military absentee ballots.
Now, Chimpstein.com has discovered an obscure report which places Miers at the forefront of the American Bar Association's successful effort to foist IOLTA on the nation. This is the smoking gun which at least one conservative group tried to locate and failed. And anyone who uses it gives Chimpstein.com, an investigative website not a blog, credit; I'm not running a free research service for journalists and advocacy organizations. The report was issued in part by the ABA "consortium" on which Miers served. But the White House web site omits this endeavor from its laundry list of Miers' putative accomplishments.
(excerpt -- because I don't know if this site allows me to do more) read more at chimpstein.com
(Excerpt) Read more at chimpstein.com ...
The "money" paragraph: "Anyone who participated in the ABA campaign to make IOLTA 'comprehensive' in all 50 states and the District of Columbia should automatically be disqualified from holding a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court," Rounds tells this reporter, who has written about IOLTA for Insight magazine, the New York Post and the Washington Times. "Comprehensive IOLTA was and is all about compulsion and deceit: Under its auspices a lawyer is compelled to assist the state in taking the property of his or her clients, and may do so without their knowledge and consent. In the post-Kelo era, the last thing we need is another justice who does not take seriously the Fifth Amendment's taking clause, for whom the ends justify the means."
Swell. Post the opinion of the Christian hater.
I recall he "thought" he had the goods on Roberts -- enough to derail him.
Like I said, I've got no comment. I'm interested to see if the underlying issue he raises has any merit, and if so if we can verify the claim that she supports it.
I have never seen this web site before, and have no interest in seeing it again. If I had been able to find a real news report on this story, I would have used it.
I apologize if the use of the site offends anybody, that was not my intention. I am certainly not endorsing the site, just providing the information for discussion.
I just recalled his site's name from his rant about Roberts. I really don't know anything more about him except that he hates the Christian right.
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