Miers Plays Santa Claus to Lefty Lawyers

Chipstein ^ | 10/23/05 | evan gahr

[freespirited]

The full report alluded to in today's Washington Times (see earlier thread). IMO fully consistent with the view Miers expressed in her columns as Texas bar president--lawyers are the key to fixing what is wrong with society.

[hispanichoosier]

IOLTA is one of the greatest shams the legal profession has pulled on the public, and I--an attorney--am willing to go on record by saying as much. If a cause is so noble and just, an attorney should take the case for free.

[flashbunny]

This doesn't matter.

What matters is that miers was an influential attorney and head of the Texas bar association. That means she has experience and legal 'gravitas'. She was in charge of a state bar association! That matters! She deserves credit for what she has done!

However, anything that was done by harriet miers during those years and makes her look bad should be ignored. She wasn't really 'in charge' of the Texas bar association. She was just passing along what other people wanted done. She can't be held responsible for what happened while she was there!

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

"Harriet Miers has helped gay rights advocates and their ideological soul mates on the left get something more valuable than advice: cold hard cash."

Never had a hubby or kids, either.

[Peter vE]

Never had a hubby or kids, either.

What, exactly, do you mean by that? A Texas Supreme court judge is on the record stating that they dated! /snark

[Das Outsider]

Already savaged by conservatives for insufficient fealty to the cause

Missing the point. It isn't that she isn't far enough to the right; we're talking about qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court: a point that the Miers Mania crowd apparently overlooked.

[freespirited]

IOLTA is one of the greatest shams the legal profession has pulled on the public, and I--an attorney--am willing to go on record by saying as much. If a cause is so noble and just, an attorney should take the case for free.

It is difficult for me to see the difference between IOLTA and theft. The client does not give permission to have the interest on his funds appropriated by the bar. I am amazed that no one has made this an issue of this.

[USPatriette]

"Never had a hubby or kids, either."

Relevance? Please be specific. Thanks.

[hispanichoosier]

It is difficult for me to see the difference between IOLTA and theft.

Well, the client can ask for his funds to be held apart from the IOLTA account. If I was a client, I might do so for religious reasons. The key is that too many clients don't know about IOLTA.

[TAdams8591]

"Never had a hubby or kids, either."

Neither did I (it most assuredly isn't because I didn't want them) and I have been a conservative (probably all my life), at least since my college days when Reagan was first elected president.

I might remind you there are several outspoken and strongly conservative women who also have never been married and don' have children. Laura Ingrahm and Ann Coulter are the first two who come to mind. Peggy Noonan has a son though she never married.

Thus, your argument is meaningless.

There are a variety of other argments which are persuasive and effective.

[TAdams8591]

Good point.

If her experience as head of the Texas ABA reflects poorly upon her, it is ignored. If it reflects well, she gets the credit.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Some eight years later, Miers and her comrades on the "American BarAssociation Consortium on Legal services and the Public," joined up with Tulane Law School professors to sponsor the very ambitious sounding "National Conference on Access to Justice in the 1990s." No mere cog in the wheel, Miers also labored on a "planning subcommittee" for the New Orleans shin dig in June 1989.

According to the official 1991 ABA report, conference participants discussed a number of "fruitful funding theories" that would provide money to fund better legal services for the poor. These included a "dedicated gross receipts tax on lawyer's professional income" and the enactment of "comprehensive IOLTA programs, now implemented in 22 states, [in] the remaining jurisdictions."

[deadrock]

That was dripping with some much sarcasm that I had to grab a towel.

[deadrock]

some = so

[sinkspur]

Never had a hubby or kids, either.

She may have met a guy like you at some point, and said "Never!"

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

What's Miers take on all this? In the only one of about 21,800 Miers that listed on news.google.com which links her to IOLTA, Jordan tells Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Max Baker "I don't know of any time in her career that she's opposed a valid, pro-bono program like Legal Services, IOLTA or the clinic approach."

[Cicero]

The main point of this thread is that Miers had a hand in organizing one of the sleaziest legal attacks on true justice that has ever been mounted in our country. And she has always moved in the kind of ABA circles that are responsible for these leftist attacks on our constitutional system of justice and equity.

She is proving to be a truly lousy candidate, maybe even worse than Souter.

There are only two ways to take this: either she is a leftist, or she is a brown noser who goes along with leftists to further her career.

Or there is a third way: She is both.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

New slogan for the Harriet Miers campaign:

If you love those pinko lawyers at the Legal Services Corporations, then you'll love Harriet!

YAY, more funding for destructive, bleeding-heart liberal causes, YAY!

[patent]

>>>>She is proving to be a truly lousy candidate, maybe even worse than Souter.

She is definitely a worse candidate than Souter. It is beginning to appear that she would also be a worse judge. I'm getting less and less happy about her.

patent

[deadrock]

Take it easy now. I'm with you guys. Meirs is a disaster.