Posted on 10/11/2005 1:59:49 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
Miers Nomination Raises Important Questions for Women
Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy
October 3, 2005
George W. Bush's nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court raises important questions for women's rights supporters. While we are pleased that Bush chose a woman for the High Court, her judicial philosophy is more important than her gender. Miers' potential as a justice is unknown at this point.
What we do know about Miers is that she is a Bush loyalist, having worked closely with him since at least 1993. With this nomination, Bush has raised to new heights his fondness for promoting close confidantes, like Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales, to top positions.
If confirmed, Miers would fill the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the key swing vote to preserve the basic protections of Roe v. Wade, to require a health exception to state-level abortion restrictions, to allow affirmative action in college admissions, and to protect Title IX's promise of equal educational opportunities for women and girls, among many others.
After careful consideration of O'Connor's record and judicial philosophy, NOW testified in support of her confirmation in 1981. While she was a conservative, O'Connor did support basic human rights and liberties that transcend the often rigid labels of "liberal" or "conservative."
It remains to be seen where Miers stands on those and virtually every other issue. She has no paper trail and has never served as a judgequite simply, her future conduct on the Court may be impossible to determine. Should the Senate confirm someone to a lifetime appointment with so little information? We think not. NOW urges the Senate to ask tough questions, insist on answers, and refuse to confirm this nomination unless they can establish that Miers supports the fundamental rights of women.
The rights of women and girls are on the line; too much is at stake to confirm a stealth nominee to the Court.
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You have a new ally. NOW. LOL
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Seems the NOW Gals are starting to get a little worried that conservatives won't be able to kill this nomination
I got a laugh out of this one! :-)
Call us types paranoid, but when the liberals are not screaming their lungs out against a nominee, we get suspicious.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499038/posts
"Senate Dems Defend Miers on Top Court Nod"
The first sentence of the article itself is A LIE. Conservatives are NOT saying she is not qualified. Only that the President did not nominate a known Scalia/Thomas type.
Of course, if the girls in question haven't managed to be born yet, NOW 'celebrates' the right to kill them.
And when this happened...what were the conservatives saying about Reagan?
If Miers were liberal, the feminists would be trumpeting in print the "women have triumphed, thanks to NOW, send us your money" articles.
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