Posted on 10/07/2005 9:51:04 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Miers seems to have a paper trail on abortion:
( SEE HERE :
http://presidentaristotle.blogspot.com/2005/10/case-for-miers-when-things-look-blurry.html)
4. Miers’ paper trail: abortion
4.1: In 1989, she contributed $150 to Texans for Life. 95% of those who contribute to pro-life groups seek to reverse Roe v. Wade; there’s no reason to think Miers is an exception.
4.2: When she ran for Dallas City Council, she openly identified herself as pro-life. Her campaign manager has since called her “on the extreme end of the anti-choice movement".
4.3: She became head of the Texas Bar in 1992-93, and used her position to lobby against the ABA’s pro-abortion positions. She continued this lobbying late into the decade. There is no reason to doubt that this was powerfully rooted in her own pro-life political views.
4.4: She gave money to Bentsen and Gore in 1987/88 when she was still a conservative Democrat. Since 1990 she has made 13-14 political donations, and these donations have gone ONLY to 100% pro-life candidates.
4.5: In 2000 she gave money to Donald Stenberg, the Nebraska attorney general who defended Nebraska’s partial birth abortion law before the Supreme Court. As one blogger put it: “I didn’t know she had given to Sternberg [sic]. The only people who I know from around here who did that were the real activists.” Exactly.
4.6: Summary: this is the most extensive pro-life record of any nominee to the Supreme Court in recent years. Even Scalia and Thomas, who both rejected Roe, never had a record like that. Roberts certainly never did. Her on-record pro-life convictions are clear and undeniable.
Good news. The ABA business suggests that she is pro-life, but it could also be that she just thought that it was undemocratic for the leadership to take a stand in favor of abortion without putting it to a vote of the membership. That was the position she took, although of course it's also consistent with being pro-life.
I find it much more telling that "In 2000 she gave money to Donald Stenberg, the Nebraska attorney general who defended Nebraska’s partial birth abortion law before the Supreme Court." There again, it could be argued that even some pro-abortion Democrats draw the line at partial birth abortion. But she certainly didn't need to donate to the cause, which I find highly significant.
Meaning Miss Miers is not in favour of slaughtering babies and that makes her "extreme"(?)
If this paper trail is any example, on the issue of abortion, the President has chosen someone who should remain a pro-life voice on the Supreme Court.
"There again, it could be argued that even some pro-abortion Democrats draw the line at partial birth abortion. But she certainly didn't need to donate to the cause, which I find highly significant."
Maybe, but I'll bet they didn't donate $
The only unanswered question is how much of an originalist she is, but since she vetted and approved the likes of Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owens, and others, it certainly appears that she favors that type of judge.
I'm still puzzled why some conservatives are opposed. I guess it's because she wasn't one of the "favorites" going into the race.
Miers may not be Scalia, Thomas or Luttig, but she is qualified to sit on the SC. When Nixon appointed William Rehnquist to the SC, the future Chief wasn't a judge. Rehnquist was a well known GOP politico in Arizona. Miers appears to be pro-life and that should go a long way with conservatives. Miers has said she would interpret the Constitution keeping the Founders original intent front and center. Sounds like this woman will do fine.
Don Stenberg is a true conservative. I would be proud to have him represent me in Congress. However, he has run for Senator twice and been defeated twice. He is running again (against Ben Nelson), but I am afraid that he will not be successful once more.
Everything I have heard about Meiers sounds good.
This is a good sign. A bit more comforting than evidence of Roberts' support of "settled law".
This is very VERY encouraging. My opinion on this pick is beginning to change....
Remember folks, Abortion IS JUST ONE ISSUE.
We still have a host of others -- property rights ( don't know ), right to bear arms ( I hear she owns one and will like be favorable to it), gay marriage ( fuzzy on this ), war on terror ( seems to be with Alberto Gonzales on this ), Tort Reform ( she is a tort reform lawyer ), etc., etc.
What we need to do is ENUMERATE the issues that are dear to all conservatives and then POINT to paper trails or indicators in her past that tell us whether she is supportive or unsupportive of such issues.
We also KNOW that she advised Bush on his picks to the Appelate Court. Therefore, if Bush recieved her input and chose such powerhouses as --- Roberts, Rogers Brown, Owen, Pryor and Estrada, we have a good indicator of her judicial philosophy as well.
How about that ? Any people who can give us more info will be welcome.
fyi... what little there is
As head of the Texas ABA, MIERS used her influence to keep the Texas ABA NEUTRAL regarding abortion. The person who preceded her as had of the ABA did like wise, but he was prochoice.
Dear Cicero,
"Good news. The ABA business suggests that she is pro-life, but it could also be that she just thought that it was undemocratic for the leadership to take a stand in favor of abortion without putting it to a vote of the membership."
If she believed that Roe were rightly decided, that indeed, abortion is a constitutional right, it's hard to imagine she'd have a problem with the ABA affirming a constitional right even without a vote of the membership.
Even if she is not pro-life per se, her actions regarding the ABA strongly suggest that she believes that the abortion issue is one that should have been, and perhaps still should be, settled via political, democratic processes. Folks who believe that are anti-Roe, even if they are not pro-life.
As overturning Roe is merely the first step in protecting unborn children in law, I could readily accept a justice who, though not necessarily pro-life, is anti-Roe.
sitetest
But the Tx ABA was NOT neutral, they had a pro-abortion plank. Miers attempted to remove that plank unsuccessfully.
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Miers = Souter....... A red herring which they know but can't help themselves from using
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Can't help but read this lovely piece of afterhought.
Remember this when people bring up the Souter Canard -- Dubya is LEARNING from the mistake his dad made. Bush Senior DID NOT KNOW Souter personally and took the word of such Senators as Warren Rudman that he is a conservative, BY FAITH.
Dubya now wants to nominate SOMEONE HE KNOWS WELL and herein lies the difference between the Souter and Miers nomination.
No, we don't. There is NO PROOF whatsoever those people represent her judicial philosophy; they represent the President's judicial philosophy. She was aware of the kind of candidates the president was seeking (btw, and most of the people she found had papertrails) and HELPED to find them. IRONICALLY, If they didn't have papertrails in the first place, she would not have been ABLE to help find them.
Was it 13 or 14?
To claim a definitive result, you must know.
It was my understanding from articles I read on this froum, at the time she headed it, it was neutral on abortion and the same was true for the pro-abortion head who preceded her.
i made the same point elsewhere. altho i hadn't seen this "papertrail" yet, i assumed that any evangelical christian is extremely likely to be pro-life. however, being pro-life, and against roe-wade says nothing about the constitution. there are too many evangelicals that are luke- warm on property rights and rkba. the fact that she owns a .45 revolver says little. from other articles, that gun sounds to be the only one she owns, was a gift from her brother, and is not oft used. the comment about her aim being "terrible" doesn't help. i fear that there may be concerns when it comes to rkba concerning EBGs.
i think stance on 2A is a sure indicator of the rest of a person's view on the constitution.
but still, as i have said before, meirs is likely the best pick our President could have made, given the spineless "conservatives" we have in the senate.
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