[ConservativeMan55]

What do we know about her?

[alessandrofiaschi]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo

[Terpfen]

According to FNC, she was Bush's personal lawyer in 1985.

[SE Mom]

If this is true- there are going to be a LOT of unhappy people.

[Clock King]

Lack of paper trail...

[alessandrofiaschi]

href="/~cripplecreek/" title="Since 2003-12-21">cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)

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To: GeneralStorm

		American Justice Partnership
		Counsel to President Bush

 

Harriet Miers Biography   Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President.  Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary.   Before joining the President’s staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.  She had worked at the Locke Purnell, Rain & Harrell firm, or its predecessor, from 1972 until its merger with the Liddell Sapp firm.  From 1995 until 2000, she was chair of the Texas Lottery Commission.  In 1992, Harriet became the first woman president of the Texas State Bar, and in 1985 she became the first woman president of the Dallas Bar Association.  She also served as a Member-At-Large on the Dallas City Council.   Harriet received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University.       If you know of or have authored an article or report that deserves recognition among corporate and public policy leaders, please send an email to LegalReform@lawexec.com.

Harriet Miers Counsel The White House

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		American Justice Partnership
		Counsel to President Bush

 

Harriet Miers Biography   Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President.  Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary.   Before joining the President’s staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.  She had worked at the Locke Purnell, Rain & Harrell firm, or its predecessor, from 1972 until its merger with the Liddell Sapp firm.  From 1995 until 2000, she was chair of the Texas Lottery Commission.  In 1992, Harriet became the first woman president of the Texas State Bar, and in 1985 she became the first woman president of the Dallas Bar Association.  She also served as a Member-At-Large on the Dallas City Council.   Harriet received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University.       If you know of or have authored an article or report that deserves recognition among corporate and public policy leaders, please send an email to LegalReform@lawexec.com.

Harriet Miers Counsel The White House

[SouthCarolinaKit]

She's said to be NOT pro-life so I'm against her!

[TXLibertarian]

The President has selected a fine legal scholar this time.

Alex, from Fargo, North Dakota writes: Could you explain how Barney plays horseshoes?

Harriet Miers: The President throws the horseshoes to Barney, and Barney runs after them. Metal horseshoes are too heavy for Barney to lift, so he doesn't carry them around. Instead he moves them around with his nose. He has figured out pretty quickly how to get under the horseshoe enough to flip it over. As you know, the President loves horsing around with Barney.

From http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040811.html

[handy]

What do we know about her?

She's 60 and she is not J. Michael Luttig or Michael McConnell.

I'm feeling very Daschle about the whole thing.

[Comanche]

Non-starters - Dallas City Council
Texas Lottery Comission

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

This isn't what I helped campaign for, as a volunteer; and it's not what I supported, with numerous (and substantial) cash donations.

[Gone GF]

I'm not able to read all the posts on the nominee, but in a quick scan I'm very disappointed that I haven't seen any comments on what to some seems to be the most important qualification for any female in the spotlight -- her looks.

[zendari]

Screw this crap.

[tame]

Harriet Miers

Sh*t. No more volunteer work or donations for the GOP from me if she's confirmed.

[SC33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495721/posts

[advance_copy]

What do we know about her?

This is what I have been able to discern, mostly from information and links that have been posted on FR (America's most trusted source of news):

1. Miers has donated only to two Congressional candidates, Pete Sessions and Jon Newton. In both cases, she gave the maximum $1000 to these Texas Republicans. Sessions has a very good pro-life voting record, rated 0% by NARAL. Newton has been outspoken and uncompromising in his support for the unborn.

2. Miers has been an active member of the Valley View Christian Church in Dallas for twenty-five years. Based on their web site, this is a bible-believing Church, so her membership does indicate that she is a born again Christian.

3. Miers also donated to Don Stenberg's re-election campaign. Stenberg was the Attorney General of Nebraska and he is pro-life. He faced harsh criticism from the left because of his energetic defense of Nebraska's ban on partial birth abortion.

4. As President of the Texas Bar, Miers opposed the resolution by the American Bar Association to officially endorse killing unborn babies.

5. Miers donated to Al Gore in 1988. But that was when Gore was pro-life. Southern conservative Democrats were snookered by their national party and many later switched to the GOP. Others, like Gore, flipped over to the dark side and became devout leftists. Good southern Democrat conservatives are a thing of the past, but they were not so in 1988.

I think the President has made a good choice for the Supreme Court.

[finnman69]

[bazbo]

I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY COMMENT UNTIL MORE INFO GETS SHAKEN OUT. I JUST WANT TO BE PART OF THIS HUMONGOUS THREAD!! BTTT

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Why didn't President Bush pick a female Veteran, experienced in military law.

Who is going to protect our troops
in Iraq and Gitmo
when the ACLU takes their cases to the Supreme Court regarding "insurgent abuse" and their "civil rights?"

I have nothing against Harriet Miers
but what experience does she have in military law?

We know Supreme Court Justice John Roberts doesn't,
can't at least the 2nd pick have experience in
military law?

There are plenty of women,
who have served in the military,
and have actual hands on experience
in military law.

[right-wingin_It]

Bush went ahead and did it. I'm so pissed. Harry Reid is on board with the pick????!?!?...^&*()#%&*(

The only thing that was saving the Republican party was that they weren't on board with the baby killers. Take that away and they have sh1t left. TIME TO RAISE HELL! ITS NOW OR NEVER

[handy]

Sadly, the post from Powerlineblog.com below has the ring of truth.

When President Bush nominated John Roberts to the Court, liberal interest groups like NARAL and People for the American Way were burning up the fax lines within a matter of minutes, denouncing Roberts and demanding that the Democrats block him. This time? Nothing. Check out the NARAL and PFAW web sites. Nothing but bland press releases adopting a wait-and-see attitude.

What did happen within 30 minutes of Bush's announcement was a press release by Harry Reid that included the statement, "I like Harriet Miers." It's hard to avoid the suspicion that Bush's nomination of Miers reflects some kind of deal with the Senate Democrats. Such as, the Dems gave Bush a list of candidates they would deem "acceptable" (pending Judiciary Committee hearings, of course), and Bush chose the best candidate he could off that list.

Is that what happened? I don't know, but the theory seems to fit the facts. Why would Bush accede to the Democrats rather than fight for another Roberts-type conservative? The only reason I can think of is that liberal Republicans in the Senate, starting with Arlen Specter, told him they wouldn't back him up if he replaced Sandra O'Connor with a strong conservative. There are enough RINOs in the Senate to make such a threat credible, I think.

This is pure speculation, but it is one scenario that seems to fit the facts as we know them so far.