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.
She's so stealth, even GW didn't know she was a PC liberal.
"The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts," Miers wrote in Texas Lawyer when she was president of the state bar. "Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble ... access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. "We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs," she concluded.
Harriet Miers, 1992
The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs.
Anyway, we'll see. Even if the entire base and all the conservative think tanks and journalists oppose her to a man, it's still an uphill job to stop our goofy herd of GOP senators from confirming her
See reply #27, doesn't seem PC to me.
She sounds more like a politician than a judge.............
Try again.
"Outstanding! You are unwilling to give the President of The United States nominee a fair hearing!"
The President of the United States couldn't afford a potential Souter nominee, and now he's finding that out.
OUCH! That one's gonna leave a bruise -- ! :)
Illogical arguments raised solely for convenience. You folks not only speak out of both sides of your mouths, you do it simultaneously without the slightest indication that you hear the strange dissonance that causes the rest of us laugh at you.
Earlier the Miers fanatics were crowing about how her long and intimate work for the uber-liberal ABA meant nothing, that she was easily capable of working, around, and even leading people she personally disagreed with. Now your tack is, "How can you believe she would work for an administration she doesn't agree with?"
Hannity,Limbaugh,Coulter,Ingrahm,Savage are all of these people blow hards? Because they seem to be skeptical as well. Sorry but this women is appearing more and more with each passing day to seem like someone a liberal would nominate. Let me guess Dane your one of those that think this has something to do with the fact that she is a women as to why everyone is so critical of her. Just a guess maybe Im wrong. Im sorry I dont care if shes a women a man or something in between I would feel the same why I do now.
What concerns me is (1) the economomy and (2) national security.
Tax increases constitute a definite negative impact on the economy.
An International Criminal Court is a definite threat to U.S. security and sovereignty. It is also an open invitation to the empowerment of the numerous thugocracies that dominate most of the people of the world and--notably--the United Nations.
People generally get the kind of government they deserve--and prefer--and most of the people of the world--obviously--are perfectly willing to be ruled by thugs.
The American and European Left--obviously--shares this preference (remember the admiring references to Pol Pot as "progressive" and the love affair the Left still has with Marxism, its requiring a totalitarian dictatorship for its implementation and its having killed--already--at least 100 million people, notwithstanding.)
The American Left--intellectually crippled by its usual denial and harebrained delusional systems--and by the stupidity of most of its adherents--mindlessly assumes that all people are inherently benevolent and that foreign governments will naturally adhere to the same principles that the founding fathers established for the United States and that our ancestors have preserved for us. They're nuts! They ignore the obvious facts that most nations are ruled by thugs and tyrants, that many of the people of the world have never learned to govern themselves, and that the United States is unique, even among Western republics, as a miracle of liberty, justice, and democratic government.
Such is the stupidity of the morons who make up the rank and file of the Left, and such is the malice and indifference of the sociopaths who lead them.
If Harriet Miers is an advocate of higher taxes and/or an International Criminal Court, she has no business serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Georg Bush had no business giving her the nomination. Either of those positions is a deal breaker as far as I am concerned.
If things keep going this way Constitutional Party here i come!!
I used to think GWB was more Michael Corleone. He now is obviously more Fredo Corelone.
LOL! Get caught putting things out of context and still a blowhard.
She as President of the ABA, signed off that those proposals to go the ABA members for further debate, yep debate, no votes taken yea or nea.
I guess debate is a four letter word to you and farah.
I'll be waiting for their picture of them walking on water.
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