Posted on 10/23/2005 5:34:36 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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.
Don't confuse Kent and his fertile imagination. Miers checked that she was not in favor of repealing the law which criminalized homosexual behavior.. Only those who can't think would somehow believe Miers was in favor of gay marriage, but still wanted queer behavior punishable under the law. DUH!
I posted a direct link, exposing a blatant lie. You are the lazy fraud here.
Wouldn't it have been a whole lot simnpler for you, in the long run, just to support Kerry directly, outright, and hope like mad for the best...?
I don't have a problem. I recognize the President's right to choose the nominee, and I support her, since she doesn't suck.
Very interesting.
Your second link is for democracynow.org
That runs off the same data and promotes the same campaign as bushcommission.org.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bushcommission+democracynow&btnG=Google+Search
Bushcommission.org is what I based my post here yesterday on:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507280/posts
Whose Agenda are you Parrotting When You Do NOT Support Miers?
Bushcommission.org is owned and run by 'Not In Our Name'
They are the ones that launched the anti Miers campaign.
You posting your link from democracynow.org is very telling in my eyes.
And is all that needs to be said.
CIAO!
Not a whole lot of pro-gay advocacy articles on conservative sites, obviously, tot. (Well... not before you and the rest of the Harriet Hallelujah Choir started up, at any rate.) Why: where did you suppose pro-gay advocacy groups were likely to disseminate their stuff...?
CIAO!
Translation: "Busted! Must FLEE -- !" LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
The Founders gave the Senate the ability to stop an onerous pick, and I will admit that cronyism was high on their list of undesirables, however, since they did, for the President to make political calculations as to what nature of nominee could be affirmed, is not a problem, but is the smart thing to do.
Demanding prefect adherence to the agenda in the face of staunch political opposition is the stuff of fools or rabid partisans.
Because the Senate did not have the stomach to defeat the judicial filibuster, Bush is left with the political landscape is it is, as much as we don't like it.
An evangelical/Protestant should replace one of the two vacancies formerly held by Protestant attorneys on the SC.
Perhaps not this evangelical/Protestant.
Strictly speaking: you and the voices in your head are not, from a grammatical standpoint, considered an "us."
These lies have been posted before and are no more true than they were the first time they were posted. Give it up.
'Because the Senate did not have the stomach to defeat the judicial filibuster"
Bush is such an effective leader that he lets moderates in his own party walk all over him. Great, I guess Bush likes bending over a lot.
You're certainly welcome to take a forlorn stab at "debunking" the meat of the accusations, if you like. (Certainly, none of those preceding you on this thread have been terribly successful at it, to date.) :)
It's been going on for several weeks now. Most people are choosing to opt out of participating in these sorts of threads for exactly the reason you stated.
Direct rebuttal and irrefutable proof does not compel the critics to stop attacking Miers, who often go as far as to cite lefties and radical lefty organizations as credible sources of "proof".
It is a complete waste of time, and shows a fundamental problem in the GOP for letting these goofballs believe for too many years they had some kind of power in the party.
You do understand, of course, that until 4 years ago when Chucky said he will now consider the ideology of the nominee, that it was taboo to probe judicial philosophy. So I'm a big boy, I get it, picking Supreme Court justices is now a political exercise. Why shouldn't this tradition of our country be destroyed with all the others?
However, I will submit that, if this a job interview, the President is the interviewer and the hiring agent, and the Senate is the only arbiter of that decision...NOT THE BASE.
If your side wishes this nominee to fail, you should be petitioning your Senator to vote NAY, and NOT engaging in self-destructive calls for her withdrawal.
I'll stick to what I said when the left was filibustering Estrada...The President's nominee deserves an up-or-down vote.
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