Posted on 10/22/2005 9:19:11 AM PDT by Calpernia
I've not seen any pro Miers people call anyone sexist or elitists. I was being honest, not challenging.
WASHINGTON Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, is on record as supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, a major local tax increase and women in combat, WorldNetDaily has learned.
While some conservative leaders and organizations were stunned by the appointment, most were not alarmed by the lack of a paper trail by the nominee who has never served as a judge at any level.
But a profile of her positions as a leader of the American Bar Association, a Dallas city councilwoman and as presidential counselor is unlikely to ease the concerns of those who were expecting Bush to fulfill his promise to name a justice in the mold of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia.
According to Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, Miers has taken positions as White House counsel that violate the law banning women in combat.
"As White House counsel, Ms. Miers either approved of the Department of Defense's illegal assignments of women in units required to be all-male, which is still continuing in violation of the law requiring notice to Congress in advance, or she was oblivious to the legal consequences of those assignments," she said.
Donnelly believes the actions of Miers could lead directly to a future court ruling requiring women to register with the Selective Service for the draft because they are now being, against the wishes of Congress, assigned to land combat.
"I am very disappointed by the president's choice," she said. "Ms. Miers does not have a judicial 'paper trail,' but her record as White House counsel is a legitimate cause for concern. Democrats and liberals who were willing to use the military for purposes of social experimentation have reason to be pleased."
Donnelly also concludes that Miers approved the Bush administrations retention of President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" regulations, which, she says, are different from the 1993 law passed by Congress
Meanwhile, during Miers long affiliation with the American Bar Association, she submitted a 1999 report to the ABA's house of delegates that included recommendations to develop and establish an International Criminal Court and the enactment of laws and public policy providing that the sexual orientation of adults be no bar to adoption of children.
Under the heading Family Law and subheading Adoption, the document states: "Supports the enactment of laws and public policy which provide that sexual orientation shall not be a bar to adoption when the adoption is determined to be in the best interest of the child."
Also included, under the heading International Law and Practice, is a recommendation for "the development and establishment of an International Criminal Court."
Along with the proposed agenda was a memo, dated Oct. 28, 1998, that explained the document.
"The Committee urges all Delegates to review this list for items of interest to their constituencies, and to act as the catalyst for further contact and action so that each entity will have the earliest opportunity for consideration and input."
The memo is signed by Miers as chairwoman of the Select Committee of the House.
As a city councilwoman, Miers also said Dallas had a responsibility to pay for AIDS education and patient services. And she courted the support of the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas in her successful 1989 campaign.
In addition, economic conservatives pleased by her corporate law background may find it distressing that in 1990 Miers voted for a 7 percent property tax increase during her short tenure on the Dallas City Council.
And you missed the point of my post.
[You, leading with your chin] Unsubstantiated accusations.
Not really. Get your lawyer or librarian boot Lexis/Nexis and pull up, searching on Miers's law firm and Lomas & Nettleton, a Texas state case decided in IIRC 1995 in the state district court in Texarkana.
The opinion in that case is substantive, not "unsubstantiated", and the allegations of improper conduct with respect to a client's property, and the opinion of the court in granting in part a motion by Lomas's new counsel for summary judgment, add up to specific and substantial accusations borne in and found true.
>>>As a city councilwoman, Miers also said Dallas had a responsibility to pay for AIDS education and patient services. And she courted the support of the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas in her successful 1989 campaign.<<<
Here is Miers application to the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas.
Lesbian Gay Coalition of Dallas - Harriet Miers
She has checked NO for requesting funds for funds and NO for their endorsement.
I went to the links that the article you posted have.
http://www.abanet.org/leadership/sneak2.html
I don't see Harriet Miers name. Do you know where I can find this memo?
How do you read the gay candidate screener's handwritten comments at the very bottom of the last page? The part below the annotation
"My personal conviction is not consistent with the homosexual lifestyle"...?
Can't make that out fully -- very cryptic. Something about "housing"?
"I've not seen any pro Miers people call anyone sexist or elitists"
LOL. Then you may want to get out more.
Start from day one of the miers stories here on free republic and then go forward. You'll find charges of elitism, sexism, helping the terrorists, and more.
Again. I've not seen any pro Miers people call anyone sexist or elitists.
I don't see anything in the handwritten notes that conflicts with the questionnaire.
She probably should have been a physician with that handwriting though.
There are a couple of cases at the U. Mich site, but from your desctiption of the TX case, I don't believe it appears in that list.
University of Michigan Law Library. Hot Topic: Harriet Miers
In Re Lomas Financial Corporation (95-01235) (Bank. D. DE, 1999)
Zacharjasz v. Lomas and Nettleton Co. (87-4303) (E.D. PA, 1989)
Not surprising.
By Peter Baker and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, October 6, 2005; A01The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president's envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings.
A day after Bush publicly beseeched skeptical supporters to trust his judgment on Miers, a succession of prominent conservative leaders told his representatives that they did not. Over the course of several hours of sometimes testy exchanges, the dissenters complained that Miers was an unknown quantity with a thin résumé and that her selection -- Bush called her "the best person I could find" -- was a betrayal of years of struggle to move the court to the right.
At one point in the first of the two off-the-record sessions, according to several people in the room, White House adviser Ed Gillespie suggested that some of the unease about Miers "has a whiff of sexism and a whiff of elitism." Irate participants erupted and demanded that he take it back. Gillespie later said he did not mean to accuse anyone in the room but "was talking more broadly" about criticism of Miers.
How about direct quotes?
In that case, it'd be (The) Whos. Still no apostrophe. Now, if they OWNED an agenda, you would be correct. :o)
If that's the standard, there haven't been any insults at all, by either side.
>>>> If that's the standard, there haven't been any insults at all, by either side.
WRONG.
I gave you the genesis of the charge of elitism and sexism. Take it FWIW.
So can I say that when you support higher federal gvt spending you are "parroting socialists/ communists"?
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