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[GOPJ]

On the topic of “law and religion,” Miers wrote: “The ongoing debate continues surrounding the attempt to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual women’s [sic] right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion.” This tendentious framing of what is at issue in the abortion debate — and its utter obscuring of the appropriate roles of the courts and the political branches — would appear to come straight from Planned Parenthood.

Hmmmm....

[rdf]

Harriet Miers shows no signs of lucidity of thought, and her appointment to the Supreme Court is an unacceptable danger.

She should withdraw her name as soon as possible, or, if she will not do so on her own, President Bush should ask her to do it.

Cheers,

Richard F.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Perhaps Miers didn’t mean, or no longer means, what she said.

Well, we can settle part of this. If she meant what she said she still has to mean it because the President and the White House have told us repeatedly that Harriet Miers doesn't change and that she'll be the same 20 years from now as she is today. The only way out of that is to claim that she has since changed her mind but that one of her New Years resolutions this year was to never change again....oh wait.....she's already changed just this year when, according to her own written answer on the questionnaire that she changed her mind about being considered as a nominee to SCOTUS.

[JCEccles]

Ed Whelan is a smart, insightful, and cautious critic. He's a former law clerk for Justice Scalia and has the kind of background that is most useful for making these assessments.