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CWA: What We Need to Know About Harriet Miers
Concerned Women for America ^ | 10/10/05 | Stacy Holliday

Posted on 10/10/2005 11:30:08 AM PDT by jdhljc169

Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America (CWA) has released a memorandum explaining its evaluation of information about Harriet Miers, President Bush’s nominee to succeed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The memo explains why CWA is unable to endorse the nomination at this time based on current information about Miss Miers. It is available on CWA’s Web site, www.cwfa.org.

“CWA staff have been heavily involved in evaluating Miss Miers’ background and qualifications,” said Jan LaRue, CWA’s chief counsel. “We have learned nothing new that allows us to endorse her at this time. Whether we can eventually support her will depend on answers to questions raised in our memorandum and what is learned during the hearing process. We believe the American people deserve convincing evidence that Miss Miers can be trusted with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court,” LaRue added.

“Nothing we have seen or heard establishes Miss Miers' knowledge of and experience in constitutional law. Much is made of her leadership within the American Bar Association, an organization that is hardly known for opposing the ‘living theory’ of constitutional interpretation and judicial activism,” LaRue concluded.

“While we share Miss Miers’ evangelical faith, we find the continual emphasis on it by her supporters to be inappropriate and patronizing,” LaRue said. “It offends the Constitution.”

Every judicial nominee deserves a dignified hearing and nothing less than a swift, up or down vote at the conclusion of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The American people are entitled to fairness from judges and from senators who sit in judgment of them.


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KEYWORDS: cwa; harrietmiers; miers; scotus
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1 posted on 10/10/2005 11:30:11 AM PDT by jdhljc169
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To: jdhljc169
We will never learn what we need to know as any hearings will simply involve Miers doing a poor imitation of John Roberts at evading questions.

This nomination should be opposed by CWA, Paul Weyrich and others that know what an unnecessary gamble it is.

2 posted on 10/10/2005 11:33:41 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: Ol' Sparky

a pathetic cave to the libs,,, 'tis time to "just say NO"


3 posted on 10/10/2005 11:37:16 AM PDT by fifthvirginia (keeping their memory green)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham; Cautor; Stellar Dendrite
more sexists!
4 posted on 10/10/2005 11:38:20 AM PDT by flashbunny (Sorry, but I'm allergic to KoolAid.)
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To: flashbunny
Not just sexists. Elitist sexists.
5 posted on 10/10/2005 11:40:42 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

probably athiests, too.


6 posted on 10/10/2005 11:44:05 AM PDT by flashbunny (Sorry, but I'm allergic to KoolAid.)
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To: Betaille; Itzlzha

betaille, can you use that pinglist? i dont have it handy ATM


7 posted on 10/10/2005 11:45:00 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: jdhljc169
worldnetdaily is reporting that Miers contributed to her law firms PAC, which in turn contributed to Hillary Clinton.

seems like much ado about nothing
8 posted on 10/10/2005 11:45:47 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: flashbunny

they just hate bush.


9 posted on 10/10/2005 11:45:48 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: nerdgirl; Ol' Sparky; Map Kernow; Betaille; Pessimist; flashbunny; Itzlzha; Dont_Tread_On_Me_888; ..

PING


10 posted on 10/10/2005 11:49:09 AM PDT by Betaille ("Ms. Miers's record is one of supporting a conservative position and then abandoning it." -John Fund)
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To: AntiGuv

Not just Elitist sexists. A LYNCH MOB of Elitist Sexists.


11 posted on 10/10/2005 11:50:21 AM PDT by Betaille ("Ms. Miers's record is one of supporting a conservative position and then abandoning it." -John Fund)
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To: jdhljc169

Is Miers a sexist?

A Place at the Table for Miers and High-Level Friends, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/politics/politicsspecial1/10letter.html


12 posted on 10/10/2005 12:01:06 PM PDT by Cautor
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To: Ol' Sparky
We will never learn what we need to know as any hearings will simply involve Miers doing a poor imitation of John Roberts at evading questions.

Check this

13 posted on 10/10/2005 12:06:47 PM PDT by jdhljc169
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To: Betaille
Not just Elitist sexists. A LYNCH MOB of Elitist Sexists.

Not Just a lynch mob of elitist sexists. A lynch mob of elitist sexist RINOs

14 posted on 10/10/2005 12:07:31 PM PDT by msnimje (What in Bork's name was Bush thinking?............................Captain Ed..9 Oct 2005)
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To: jdhljc169

Ah, but the Miers strawberries! That's, that's where we had them. They laughed at us and made jokes, but we proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a George Bush's nominee was conservative.

15 posted on 10/10/2005 12:14:43 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Trust Bush is a code word for trust the Senate)
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To: Ol' Sparky

" We will never learn what we need to know "

Have you read these?

Cases and Articles:
http://www.law.umich.edu/library/news/topics/miers/miersindex.htm#article

MOOSEMUS defined :
http://mysandmen.blogspot.com/2005/10/applying-principles-of-war-to-harriet.html

Beldar blog:
http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2005/10/a_westlaw_romp_.html

Another excellent observation by Beldar:
http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2005/10/is_miers_one_in.html

Justice Scalia defendsMiers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499418/posts

http://www.legalunderground.com/2005/10/harriet_miers.html


16 posted on 10/10/2005 12:17:42 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (Proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade - and yes - I still LOVE my attitude problem)
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To: flashbunny

What they really are is a group that is liberal (and just pretending to be conservative), and they probably never supported Bush in the first place. So why should we take anything they say seriously? /sarcasm

I have not made up my mind about Miers yet, and I do support the President, but there sure are a lot of questions. And I am shocked that anyone who has questions or reservations about her, including some of the best and brightest on our side, are being labeled in awful ways because of it.


17 posted on 10/10/2005 12:25:52 PM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (There are no short cuts to any place worth going.)
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To: PatriotGirl827

That's the worst part right there.

Everybody here railed on the clinton supporters for blindly buying everything clinton did and attacking those who dared question clinton.

Now some of those same people are doing the exact same thing, just because people aren't automatically buying what GWB says.


18 posted on 10/10/2005 12:28:25 PM PDT by flashbunny (Sorry, but I'm allergic to KoolAid.)
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To: Justanobody

" We will never learn what we need to know "

Have you read these?

Do not confuse the screaming manics with facts. They are confused enough.


19 posted on 10/10/2005 12:39:33 PM PDT by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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To: jdhljc169

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/politics/61708

So this is what the 'evangelicals' at the White House have in mind for managing the national debt? Harumph!
Call me old-fashioned, but we had quite enough of that stuff back in the `90s.


20 posted on 10/10/2005 12:43:20 PM PDT by tumblindice
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