When Harriet met Chuck [Schumer comments on Meeting with Miers]

Newsday ^ | October 18, 2005 | GLENN THRUSH AND TOM BRUNE

[Stellar Dendrite]

Senator finds his sitdown with Supreme Court nominee yields no insights and shows some weakness in law BY GLENN THRUSH AND TOM BRUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU

October 18, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers emphatically denied she's on a secret mission to overturn Roe v. Wade, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday after meeting with her and complaining that their discussion left him questioning her constitutional knowledge.

Despite her assurances, the encounter left Schumer noncommittal on Miers' candidacy. Schumer told a throng of reporters camped outside his Capitol Hill office that Miers either withheld her opinions -- or didn't have enough knowledge of landmark privacy rights cases to answer specific questions.

"I didn't learn answers to so many important questions," the Brooklyn Democrat said. "On many she wouldn't give answers. On many others she deferred, saying 'I need to sort of bone up on this a little more, I need to come to conclusions.'"

Senators may get a clearer view of Miers' philosophy today when she submits answers to an extensive Senate questionnaire.

Schumer voted against the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts, largely because Roberts wouldn't provide specific responses to questions. "My first conversation with John Roberts was far more illuminating than this conversation was," he said yesterday. Miers has agreed to meet a second time with Schumer.

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping

[Dog Gone]

Maybe you and your ally, Chuckie, can derail the nomination. You're certainly doing your best.

[decal]

"'I didn't learn answers to so many important questions,' the Brooklyn Democrat said."

Like why any carbon-based life-form would vote for this feeb...

[ErnBatavia]

The 'Rats are so scripted in these nominations that it's gonna bite them in the ass.

Stand by - there will be two more during Bush's tenure. This could get fun.

[claudiustg]

Schumer?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Because his opponent was Assemblyman Howard Mills.

[kittymyrib]

Stick a fork in her...she's done. Did they really think a testimony by Chuckie Schumer that she would vote for abortion would help her get out of committee? Any conservative on the Judiciary Com. that votes for her now is an idiot.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Scroll down to the last paragraph of the story.

[Zechariah11]

She is just Sandra Day O'Connor for twenty more years.

[claudiustg]

---Did they really think a testimony by Chuckie Schumer that she would vote for abortion would help her get out of committee?---

What are you talking about?

[WOSG]

"But Schumer seemed most distressed by Mier's truncated -- or nonexistent -- responses to questions about lesser-known privacy cases that led to the Roe decision, including the 1923 decision Meyer v. Nebraska, a case in which the state tried to restrict the teaching of German in public schools."

Ouch, message to Harriet: you really need to bone up on the Libs favorite precedents for making preborn-baby-killing a constitutional right, or you will get nowhere with them!

[JCEccles]

How did Miers get so far on so little apparent ability? Is she the Chauncy Gardner of Texas politics?

[Cicero]

I don't think Newsday can object to citing a direct quotation from Harriet Miers during this conversation:

While Miers has not taken a public position on abortion, at a 1992 annual meeting of the American Bar Association she said she understood why abortion rights' advocates were so vehement, according to transcripts released yesterday. "When you understand, as I do, that the choice issue is inextricably entwined with the debate of total freedom for women, for empowerment, you fully understand the depth of caring and emotion which accompany the efforts like those in support of this resolution."

[ErnBatavia]

Scroll down to the last paragraph of the story.

How 'bout you popping it up here instead...

[muawiyah]

Let's hope Harriett, unlike our headline writer, didn't forget that this guy's correct name is "Chucky".

[TheCrusader]

It becomes more and more evident over time just how important abortion is to the democ-rats. It's their main political issue because it's the pillar that supports feminism, which in turn is the pillar that supports the democrat party.

The democrat party could truly be called the party of child sacrifice. If babies could vote these scum-sucking, bottom dwelling liberals would lose every election in a landslide.

[SteveH]

On many others she deferred, saying 'I need to sort of bone up on this a little more, I need to come to conclusions.'"

Maybe they have training wheels in constitutional law for supreme court justices???

;-)

[claudiustg]

You've got Schumer's word on it!

[wmfights]

"....I need to bone up on it a little....."

It's tough to follow Robert's who was able to go to meetings and the hearings without notecards and not only offer opinion, but back it with case law.

Obviously, Chucky is not someone to be trusted, but doesn't it appear that HM is more like "Aunt Betty" than Scalia/Thomas?