Posted on 10/21/2005 8:06:20 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.
The Supreme Court nominee's words and actions from the early 1990s, when she held key leadership positions as president-elect and president of the state bar, provide the first window into her personal views on affirmative action, an area in which the Supreme Court is closely divided and where Miers could tip the court's balance.
Her tenure at the bar association also could provide new fodder for conservatives opposed to her nomination, as President Bush seeks to quell a rebellion on the right over his selection of Miers.
To some conservatives, the types of policies pursued by the Texas bar association amount to reverse discrimination. One of the chief complaints on the right against Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was that he clashed with conservatives who wanted to take a harder line against affirmative action.
White House spokesman Jim Dyke said that Miers's actions on the bar do not indicate a view on how Miers might rule on the big question before the Supreme Court, which is how far government can go to promote diversity.
"The best I can tell, this was a private-sector initiative to increase diversity, which is not the same thing as a government mandate of quotas," he said.
Miers, the first woman president of the Texas Bar, vowed in her first interview with the Texas Law Journal as president to "be inclusive of women and minorities."
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Just now read this on the Washington post.
You beat me to the punch :)
How much more evidence do people need to realize that Bush stabbed conservatives in the back?
How can they say that set-asides for the State Bar of Texas involve a private-sector initiative?
It's not a surprise. As I pointed out in an earlier post, her writings are full of that liberal code-word, "diversity." She makes a regular habit of using it in connection with race and gender issues.
It's the typical attitude of someone who is solidly anchored in the establishment and therefore doesn't have to worry about what this kind of social engineering would do to her own chances of getting ahead on a tilted playing field.
"How much more evidence do people need to realize that Bush stabbed conservatives in the back?"
For some, Bush could nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg and they'd still be saying: "trust Bush!"
Sinking in RASS polling.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/Miers%20Confirmation_Oct%2021.htm
Affirmative Action = Jim Crow (only difference is the racial target)
The difference between a sign that says "Colored Only" and a sign that says "No Whites Allowed"? "Colored Only" makes it sound like a put down. "No Whites Allowed" makes it sound like an exclusive club. But in both instances you're using the law to separate people by skin color (or gender/sexual orientation.)
To be in favor of Affirmative Action you have to uphold everything you stand against: laws restricting people by race, stereotyping (blacks and minorities are held back, whites have everything handed to them), I could go on...
What a nomination. What a President. What a travesty.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
did you make that??
yes...I plead guilty ;)
use as you wish!
Maybe, being as she was talking about lawyers, she meant to say ".... reflect our population as a-holes."
this is a consistent problem with women lawyers in positions of authority in mandatory Bars.
It gets better and better. A professional bureaucrat firmly established in the establishment, who swims along with whatever shiite flows downriver, won't make unnecessary waves, and plays at pretending she's a mirror when with someone who can advance her career.
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