[GarySpFc]

I wonder if perhaps Miers would be the Mother Hen of the Constitution, seeking to protect it and preserve it from liberal reinterpretation.

That is highly a certainty. When she was first nominated I contacted my buddy in Dallas to see if I could uncover anything. His father has known her since she was on the city council. He said at that time she would often state, "We need to go back and see what the city charter has to say," and "Our courts have departed from the original intent of the Founders."

I am likewise a member of the same churches of Christ/Christian Churches as her Valley View Christian Church. My mentor and best friend for 10 years was in the same churches, and had 5 earned doctorates; law, literature, psychology, and 2 in theology. He read the Bible as an originalist, and was very literal in interpreting it. Mind you, while he applied a literal interpretation a majority of the time, he also called for seeking the author's intent. Examples of a departure from strict literalism would be; Jesus never meant He was literally "the door," or that you are to actually "pluck out your eye" or "cut off your hand." However, the literal interpretation is to be applied unless it is very obvious that was not the author's original intent.

[GarySpFc]

Correction. The above, "That is highly a certainty" should read, "That is almost a certainty."

[GarySpFc]

Valley View is technically nondenominational, but that's because it is a so-called independent Christian church and is not beholden to a governing body. Its theological doctrines, however, are closely related to two American denominations, the slightly more conservative Church of Christ and the more liberal Disciples of Christ, both of which trace their roots to just after the Revolutionary War.

One could receive a wrong impression from this paragraph. The independent Christian Churches and the liberal Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) went their separate ways during the fifties. Miers is a member of the more conservative Christian Churches.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

"She is wedded to stare decisis..."

So in other words, she's committed to upholding precedent.

Such as Griswold, Roe, Engel, Kelo, and other decisions that run afoul of the original intent of the U.S. Constitution.

Good to know.