For years, Miers was a driving force in Texas for reforms that would protect industry from lawsuits. But we were told by the 'truth squads', that she has never stood up for anything.
She helped elect reform-minded judges to the state bench, including longtime friend Nathan Hecht, a Texas supreme court justice who is derided by trial lawyers as the father of Texas tort reform.
How about that...
Until 2001, Miers was a director of the Committee for a Qualified Judiciary, a Texas political action committee devoted to electing conservative judges.
"Lies I say", she is a uber liberal. She became director just to fool the sheeple into supporting her for nomination to the SC. Plus, she has no record to let us know where she stands on anything... none, zip, ....
The entrenched ideologues will try to diminish and demean what you highlighted from the article. They are unwilling to give Miers any credit, fearing to do so will weaken their argument against her. They prove they are really no different or better than the ideological left in thier close-mindedness.
I think that instead of excerpting just those lines, sperately out of context, if you take the full section, it provides a much more powerful case about her capabilities and reveals the fraud of her detractors calling her a lightweight:
Miers has a blue-chip résumé that would wow Wall Street. Her record on constitutional issues is thin, but Miers's top-flight credentials in corporate law are attractive to the CEO-in-chief, who holds an MBA and was himself a businessman before being elected governor in Texas.
Her decades as a high-powered corporate litigator are just the beginning. She also has served on the corporate boards of a securities fund and a mortgage company. She's tackled the entire spectrum of commercial issues firsthand, defending Texas car dealers against price-fixing charges, challenging claims that Microsoft sold defective software, protecting Walt Disney's trademarks, and taking on consumers who sued mortgage companies for violating debt collection laws.
But, for the boardroom set, it's her work outside the courtroom that sets her apart. For years, Miers was a driving force in Texas for reforms that would protect industry from lawsuits. She helped elect reform-minded judges to the state bench, including longtime friend Nathan Hecht, a Texas supreme court justice who is derided by trial lawyers as the father of Texas tort reform. Until 2001, Miers was a director of the Committee for a Qualified Judiciary, a Texas political action committee devoted to electing conservative judges. In 1995, the pro-business Texas Civil Justice League hired her to press for caps on punitive damage awards and curbs on medical malpractice claims. It was a short-lived gig; Miers felt uneasy lobbying her former client, George W. Bush, who had just been elected governor. So she withdrew.
Still, that same year she urged Bush to veto legislation that would ban the state Supreme Court from limiting attorneys' fees, calling the bill "an assault" on a court that was in Republican hands for the first time. Bush took her advice. "She'll be a very strong judge for business interests," says Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron.
That makes a very powerful case for her being qualified. And this article does not say anything about her lead role in the Bush/Cheney 2000, 12th Amendment case.
I have learned one thing here, do not expect entrenched ideological zealots to give an inch.