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.
It doesn't matter - you can repeat it over and over again until you are blue in the face. The facts are what they are - and you only prove your overwhelming stupidity and/or dishonesty by continuing to ignore them.
You'd have saved yourself a good four, five seconds, easily, simply by typing: "Shoot. I have no intelligent answer for that, actually."
Well, you could have read the damn survey she just submitted to the Senate. She has a strict constructionist philosophy.
Now the point, when you actually start to pin him down, when Kent will begin to say 'click' or 'ciao' or somesuch and duck out of this debate.
Schummer would be a good 'Moe Green'.
Precisely, and another excellent reason not to confirm her. Politicans, for the most part, are more power-hungry than principled.
It's not surprising to me at all. There's plenty of factual stuff to oppose the Mier's nomination on - but some find it more fun, apparently, to lie about her.
That's rich coming from the side that has acquiesced to the politicization of this nomination.
Are you seriously saying that a woman who OPPOSED letting gays stick it in other guy's butts, who opposed letting gays have freedom to do what they want in their private time, would also be in support of an extreme liberal view of what rights gays should have?
You need to really stop smoking the weed.
How did it make it to his desk w/o strong Republican support in Congress. He also warned congress it was their responsibility to kill it. He wasnt going to do their dirty work for them just because they were cowards.
When it comes to the U.S. Constitution, Bush doesn't get it. He doesn't understand the strict limits on federal authority. He doesn't understand how this sets us apart as a free nation from all others in the world.
Joe Farah, www.worldnetdaily.com
One or two days into this selection, I felt Miers was a Karl Rove strategy to get Tom Delay off the front pages. Still do...
I have no idea what your lengthy paragraphs had to do with anything, but they were certainly not a reply to the article.
This is the flat-out scariest instance of mass denial on public record since the whole "Paul Is Dead" craze of the late '60s. Seriously.
Civil rights mean gays shouldn't be beaten up in the streets. There is no indication she supported gay marriage.
You STILL have not explained why somebody who opposed the right of gays to have sex in their own bedrooms would support the facilitation of that sex by letting them get married!
Are you that stupid?
Was this a part of the pathethic questionnaire that caused the committee to get her to do a do over?
Im against Miers because she has no qualifications other than Bush says she is going to vote the right way. Wasnt it Bush that also said there were WMD in Iraq?
Oopps sorry she does have other qualifications: she's never been a judge, she is a Christian, she's a woman and she's from Texas. Yes those are hardy endorsements for a lifetime nomination.
After fighting for years to get a judiciary that bases its decisions on original intent as opposed to legislating from the bench, Bush is now appointing someone who is going to legislate in the right way. Also we have fought for years to keep religion out of judicial considerations. Rembember how offended we were when Schumer attacked one of our court nominees over his closely held personal beliefs (i.e, he was devout Catholic). We were inflamed. Now we have administration supporters and others going around saying support Miers because she is a fundementalist Christian and she is going to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Absolutely. I've always considered civil rights to be freedom from discrimination. You know, like the civil rights laws passed in the 60's that proscribe discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or religion.
Since when do civil rights have anything to do with marriage and adoption?
I DO believe in civil rights for homos and lesbians, because I don't think they should be discriminated against.
PS Don't bother insulting me, I'm immune.
CFR not strong overall but it was among the Independents that Kerry needed to have any chance to win.
What are you... a Kos Kid, on vacation from your normal stomping grounds? Gays already HAVE the "civil right" not to be "beaten up in the streets," moppet. We ALL enjoy the civil right "not to be beaten up in the streets." It's a civil right guaranteed -- in each and every state, throughout the union entire -- by simple, straightforward battery laws. Are you actually stupid enough (or, rather, to attempt feigning stupidity) not to know even THAT much?
G-d forbid that you're actually allowed to cast a ballot, in whichever state you and your luckless legal guardian reside.
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