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.
That's exactly what I'm afraid of.
Yeah Leonard Leo a biggie at the Federalist Society, who is helping her through the confirmation process is so unacceptable.
It takes someone either uncommonly brave or impossibly stupid to accuse someone else of "putting things out of context" [sic], in light of the revelations of Posting #42, in this very thread. And I've seen no hard or convincing evidence of your valor.
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.
Provide a link including Miers' own words, explicitly stating that. Otherwise: you're just thrashing about frenziedly, making it all up as you go along.
Again.
LOL! Common sense is now "illogical". If Hariet Miers was for the ICC, why would she work so closely with the person who put a dagger through it's heart, GW Bush.
Step out of the Matrix...
So then you agree with Chucky Schumer that we need to know this nominee's judicial philosophy before we can vote to affirm her?
LOL! Projection at it's best. That is exactly what your hero farah does.
Give the lady a break, and why all of the sudden the hysterics over a judicial appoitment over a person who has an excellent record(even you would admit that) on judicial appoitments.
The way our system works, we have the Senate agree or no agree to the President's recommendation. Apparently, you want something else.
Like Alice in Wonderland George Will, Limbaugh et al all want the sentence first and the trial later.
If I am right, the President is not going to cave to George Will and the others simply because they dislike his choice.
PS: thanks for the service to our Country. RVN Class of 69 could be my other handle.
Look, buttercup: if you can't back it up... then you just can't, is all. (Certainly not as if I ever genuinely believed you actually could, after all.)
Incidentally: you ever gonna butch up and respond to counterpunch's Posting #42, or what...?
Just because she is more pro-2nd amendment than Bork, really grates you doesn't it.
Oh BTW, can you provide of Ms. Miers actual yea or nea vote on the ICC, instead of implying that she is, when in actuality she signed off for those issues to be debated within the ABA.
Oh that's right you can't stand debate, nevermind.
Because that is where her bread was buttered.
IWWT.
So you're blaming the cover-up on Newsmax?
Got a link to the article you copied it from?
And why are you choosing Newsmax of all things as your source?
Their writing is even worse than Harriet Miers's.
It's quite ironic that you would diss WorldNetDaily readers in the same sentence that you admit to sourcing from Newsmax.
Whatever, but even you have to admit that Bush's previous judicial picks have been excellent, so it seems that Bush has the track record and not his critics.
The Link is in my reply #27.
I guess you anti-Miers moonbats are blind as bats also.
Yes.
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