Posted on 10/06/2005 5:17:35 PM PDT by freedomdefender
Harriet Miers is unfazed by the criticism and questioning of her qualifications as she seeks to become the next Supreme Court justice, a longtime friend said Thursday.
"She's excited. She's working hard at it. The criticism, I think, is rolling off her back as it usually does," said Justice Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court.
Hecht, who has known Miers for 30 years, said he has visited her several times since she was nominated by President Bush on Monday.
A new poll indicates people are uncertain about Miers. In an AP-Ipsos poll taken this week, two thirds of those surveyed didn't know enough about Miers to have an opinion of her. Just 41 percent said the Senate should confirm her, lower than similar ratings for Roberts after his nomination; 27 percent said she should not be confirmed and 32 percent weren't sure.
The White House said that former Indiana Republican Sen. Dan Coats, who has most recently served as ambassador to Germany, will serve as Miers' escort through the confirmation process, much as former Sen. Fred Thompson did for Chief Justice John Roberts.
"Senator Coats will be working closely with the nominee and serving as a public advocate for her," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "He will help advise her throughout the process. Senator Coats' role will be to attend meetings with senators on Harriet's courtesy visits."
The choice of Miers, a veteran lawyer and White House aide who has never been a judge _ and therefore has no record of judicial decisions _ has worried some Republican senators, anti-abortion activists and others who question the depth of her conservative views. Democrats, meanwhile, worry that she will prove too conservative.
"I don't have any doubt that she'll be conservative," Hecht said in an interview on NBC"s "Today" show. "Whether she'll move the court to the right I don't know."
Hecht said he was confident that Miers is "pro-life" but can't predict whether she would vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
Miers' commitment to her evangelical church in Dallas "shapes the kind of person that she is," Hecht said. "It doesn't shape her view on cases. In fact, almost the opposite."
"Someone who is very committed to their faith is also going to be committed to the oath that they take as a judge, and is going to judge cases fairly and is not going to let personal or religious views or any other kind of views influence the decisions in actual cases," he told CBS' "The Early Show."
Never happen.
It's a joke. Sheesh.
Calm down Dane. What, no sense of humor?
She can use it as a foot rest while she's trying to remember if there are 6 articles or if there are 7.
Worth repeating!...again!
Correction heart attack.
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A BIG FAY ZERO!!!!!!!!!!1
Farmers were the builders and architects of our country. Lawyers run it now. How far away from the Constitution have we gotten?
Worth repeating!...again!
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I am relieved!!!!!! Good night
Thanks. You're nice.
LOL.
Now, why should that not surprise us?
People of strong character and purpose seldom are "fazed" by the darts and arrows of others.
There are many wise, knowledgeable citizens out here in the heartland who know that it neither takes an Ivy League graduate nor a judge to be devoted to the Founders' Constitution. As a matter of fact, some of the most knowledgeable constitutional scholars are those who have read extensively the writings of the Founders and that great body of literature from which they gleaned their ideas.
Some of the least knowledgeable are those who have all the right "credentials," including degrees from liberal journalism and law schools, and have not a clue about the ideas essential to the protection of liberty as incorporated into the Constitution of the United States.
If she is of good character, with a good mind, loves the law, loves liberty, and is dedicated to the proposition that judges should interpret the constitution and not make law, then she will cause her critics to be silenced by her actions.
True? If so, interesting!
Zip, zero, nada.
Brilliant. And we all may lose.
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