Posted on 10/08/2005 1:34:59 PM PDT by beyond the sea
Krauthammer: Withdraw Miers Nomination
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/8/130600.shtml
President Bush should withdraw his nomination of Harrier Miers to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor, says Washington Post columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer.
In a blistering Post column Friday Krauthammer, normally a strong Bush supporter, wrote that if Miers weren't a Bush crony, "her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her."
Noting that there are 1,084,504 lawyers in the United States, Krauthammer asked: "What distinguishes Harriet Miers from any of them, other than her connection with the president? To have selected her, when conservative jurisprudence has J. Harvey Wilkinson, Michael Luttig, Michael McConnell and at least a dozen others on a bench deeper than that of the New York Yankees, is scandalous."
The columnist called the fact that Miers has been chosen by a conservative president "particularly dismaying. For half a century, liberals have corrupted the courts by turning them into an instrument of radical social change on questions – school prayer, abortion, busing, the death penalty – that properly belong to the elected branches of government. Conservatives have opposed this arrogation of the legislative role and called for restoration of the purely interpretive role of the court. To nominate someone whose adult life reveals no record of even participation in debates about constitutional interpretation is an insult to the institution and to that vision of the institution."
Krauthammer predicted that Miers will "surely shine in her Judiciary Committee hearings," but explained that she will do so "only because expectations have been set so low. If she can give a fairly good facsimile of John Roberts's testimony, she'll be considered a surprisingly good witness. But what does she bring to the bench?"
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Not to worry, sure we conservatives got screwed on an opportunity that only comes along once or twice every 10-20 years, but hey,
The borders are wide open.
The president is hugging and kissing the saudis.
The 1st muslim suicide bomber is being covered up well by the Justice department.
Wahabbi mosques flourish here.
The President just told us islam is a "noble" religion and in fact quoted chapter and verse from the koran! (anyone care to mention when he did that in a major address for the Old Testament, the New Testament)?
The war in Iraq still has no timetable, milestones, or deliverbles.
muslim terror groups pretending to be civil rights groups have unusually close asociations with the Bush administration.
All is well!
DOWN WITH THESE ELITISTS!!
Don't forget George Will, William Kristol, Tony Snow...yeah, who needs 'em anyway, you've got Allen H!!!
His audience is split so yes, he was all over the road.
All three groups -- pro, anti and undecided -- were well represented in his statements.
I swear some of these folks who have come down so hard on Ms. Miers seem like they put down a huge wager in Vegas on their "high-priced spread", and they lost. Bummer.
He's a supporter. Good grief! I really do not understand these people who exect unquestioning allegiance to one man. If you want a king to bow to, move to another country.
Yeh, I hear the guy "chickened out" because the guards were checking in Oklahoma at the stadium gates for alchohol.
I guess we can finally say someting good about drinking at football games.
All is far from well.
No disrespect intended for any of these pundits, but cutting edge punditry is more likely to be found here at FR.
I know exactly who Chuck is. And if Chuck's against her, she may not be all that bad. Granted she may look at cases with a Republican slant instead of from a Constitutional basis, but nobody's perfect. This is indeed promising news...
ROFL!
I like Rush, but he's a con artist way too often.
#34. More than likely your post is right on the button!
Some of these characters instead of standing behind and supporting the President, now want to go in front of him and lead him. Egotistically believe they know it all. My Money is on the President! These egotistical yo-yos' with their whining are serving the left with their moaning!
beyond the sea,
God Bless You and All here at Free Republic!:-)
I'm returning to my Eternal Vigilance and Duty,
God Bless....
D2
Thats all well and good, but Rush also said this wasnt the best pick...and this was a good chance to have a debate about the courts and to expose the left.
Again, I listed Ingraham and Levin as well, both lawyers who understand the stakes and the fact that this was a bad choice.
Finally, regardless of their opinion, Ive found some things that just dont jive. She supported affirmative action and created a feminist lecture series at SMU. Those are hardly conservative ideas, unless of course you are a proponent of the so called "big tent":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1498195/posts?q=1&&page=201
"Miers' time on Dallas City Council provides some insight"
Miers was one of 10 Dallas council members to unanimously approve a 1989 agenda item that revised minimum height, weight and vision requirements for Dallas firefighters to facilitate "promotion of certain ranks in the Fire Department," particularly women.
The agenda item's title: "Implementation of Fire Department Affirmative Action Plan."
It is very interesting. Which goes hand in hand with this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498109/posts
In the late 1990s, as a member of the advisory board for Southern Methodist University's law school, Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies named for Louise B. Raggio, one of the first women to rise to prominence in the Texas legal community ...Ms. Miers, whom President Bush announced on Monday as his choice to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, not only advocated for the lecture series, but also gave money and solicited donations to help get it off the ground ... A feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, delivered the series's first lecture, in 1998.
Yep.
Very true............. but it's easier to write well when you're comfortably in your pj's.
I so agree! The SC is the people's bench! Not just people who know things about the Constitution--but all people! Miers will be a voice for the majority of Americans, too often unrepresented on that lofty seat: the people who don't really understand the Constitution or have any opinions about it.
Was it too tough for you to hit on the link?
#56. Very Valid Points!!!!
God Bless,
D2
President Bush nor any other party member would nominate Janice Rogers Brown to SCOTUS. She is a loose cannon, in effect an actual conservative, that would rule against government programs and unconstitutional federal laws no matter who instituted them. Imagine the Patriot Act and NCLB, not to even mention half the other useless 'helpful' programs thrown out simply because the Justices realize the federal government doesn't have that explicit power.
As much as I would like to see her on the Court giving Justice Thomas some help against the federal supremacy judges (Republican and Democrat alike) I doubt we would ever see Janice Rogers Brown on the Court. What President would nominate her realizing half the waste he helped bring about could possibly disappear?
Anyone should be allowed to fly it. I'll send your name forward.
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