Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Miers Testimony (WSJ/James Taranto)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 10-13-2005 | James Taranto

Posted on 10/13/2005 1:39:16 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite

President Bush last week expressed his confidence in the constancy of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, saying that "20 years from now she'll be the same person, with the same philosophy," as she is today. White House aides making the case for Miers, meanwhile, have been insisting that she is a reliable conservative. Since she has no judicial record and has had little to say about constitutional law, we can only guess at what her judicial philosophy might be, if indeed she has one at all. But if she is a political conservative, then she has not remained constant over the past 20 years.

We base this on a look at her testimony in Williams v. Dallas, a voting-rights case from 1989, when Miers was an at-large member of the Dallas City Council. Read over it and the impression that emerges is of a left-leaning centrist, not a conservative. (The testimony is here, as a five-megabyte PDF file, but we're not 100% confident that our server will be able to handle it. If it disappears, check back here for a new link as soon as we're able to provide one.)

(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antibush; harrietmiers; miers; scotus; souter2
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-67 next last

1 posted on 10/13/2005 1:39:24 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ARealMothersSonForever; NixonsAngryGhost; indcons; 2ndreconmarine; Stellar Dendrite; nerdgirl; ...

ping


2 posted on 10/13/2005 1:40:14 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stellar Dendrite

More hatred from another stealth leftist. </s>


3 posted on 10/13/2005 1:49:01 PM PDT by oblomov
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stellar Dendrite

Why were we supposed to believe she is conservative, again?


4 posted on 10/13/2005 1:50:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stellar Dendrite
The wingniuts going nutzo, and before you scream and call for my banning, it was Drudge who called Free Republic the home of the wingnuts in a Howard Kurtz/Wash Post column.

The circle has come full circle.

5 posted on 10/13/2005 1:50:59 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stellar Dendrite

This is BS, Miers will never change. Never mind that she went from being a Gore-supporting Catholic Democrat to a Bush-adoring evangelical Republican in the past 20 years ... she'll never change again!


6 posted on 10/13/2005 1:51:09 PM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country" -- Mitt Romney)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thoughtomator
Why were we supposed to believe she is conservative, again?

Uh that two years later she stated in a speech that the 2nd amendment is an individual right, unlike rock star judge to the elite who called it an anarchorism.

7 posted on 10/13/2005 1:52:48 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Dane

i wasnt the one who said that you should be, that was another freeper, inquest i believe.

i want you around for entertainment purposes.


8 posted on 10/13/2005 1:54:27 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Dane

Apparently that isn't inconsistent with being a racist and a sexist, two charges that are very unfortunately quite substantial on the same record that allegedly establishes her as pro-2nd.


9 posted on 10/13/2005 1:55:26 PM PDT by thoughtomator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: JohnnyZ

Did you see where she sent an American greetings card to then Gov. Bush. Time for a special prosecutor according to the right wing media elite.


10 posted on 10/13/2005 1:55:37 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Stellar Dendrite

"...her declaration that she had refrained from joining "politically charged" organizations like the Federalist Society, even though she had been a member of the liberal Progressive Voters League. When the lawyer questioning her asked if the NAACP (of which she was not a member) was "in the category of organizations you were talking about"--i.e., "politically charged"--she answered "no."

This was in 1989 - just 16 years ago. Now her supporters claim that she's a conservative. If she can change that much in 16 years, what's to stop her from changing back over the course of the next 16 years?

Answer: Nothing.


11 posted on 10/13/2005 1:55:44 PM PDT by Parmenio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #12 Removed by Moderator

To: Stellar Dendrite
She's going "to grow" on the bench.

She's going to become a lefty FOR SURE.

13 posted on 10/13/2005 1:58:17 PM PDT by gaijin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Eich_man

I dont like your user name, hmm a Newb with a Nazi Name? Sniff Sniff


14 posted on 10/13/2005 1:59:22 PM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Parmenio
This was in 1989 - just 16 years ago. Now her supporters claim that she's a conservative. If she can change that much in 16 years, what's to stop her from changing back over the course of the next 16 years?

Ronald Reagan was an FDR democrat and he never changed back.

BTW, I am glad this she was nominated since it has exposed the utter hubris, elitism, and vindictiveness of the so-called "true conservatives".

And you all have "wing-nut" Drudge egging you on.

15 posted on 10/13/2005 2:01:09 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Stellar Dendrite

I guess this answers the question, "What kind of person would John Kerry appoint to the Supreme Court?"


16 posted on 10/13/2005 2:03:42 PM PDT by msnimje (14-Day Free Trial into Monthly Subscription to Times Select, $7.95)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #17 Removed by Moderator

To: Dane

Reagan was Reagan. Who is Harriet Miers?


18 posted on 10/13/2005 2:06:26 PM PDT by Parmenio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: aft_lizard; Eich_man

I'm guessing it's meant to be ironic. Not really the most tasteful of choices, but hey, I'm not an admin here.


19 posted on 10/13/2005 2:07:11 PM PDT by thoughtomator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Dane

The Democrat party that Reagan left was politically to the right of the current GOP. They spent less and were more faithful to America. Sad, ain't it.


20 posted on 10/13/2005 2:08:43 PM PDT by thoughtomator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-67 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson