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Harriet Miers the pick AP

Posted on 10/03/2005 4:06:25 AM PDT by johnmecainrino

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To: Eaker

Hear hear!


2,561 posted on 10/03/2005 2:32:03 PM PDT by InsureAmerica (Evil? I have many words for it. We are as dust, to them. - v v putin)
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To: JCEccles

That's the problem. Now it seems that an open advocacy of conservative legal views (JRB, Owen, Luttig, etc.) is a disqualifier whereas open advocacy of ultraliberal views (Ruth Ginsburg's views on polygamy, abortion, death penalty etc.) is OK.


2,562 posted on 10/03/2005 2:32:46 PM PDT by Tarkin (Janice Rogers Brown to the SCOTUS)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

It's "Miers" with an "i"...perhaps "Myers" is a conservative constitutionalist, but apparently "Miers" is not.


2,563 posted on 10/03/2005 2:32:53 PM PDT by Drago
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To: sinkspur
Oh yes he did..... here's is quote from his diary: The pressures on a Supreme Court justice to shift leftward are intense. There is the negative pressure of the vicious, hostile press that legal conservatives must endure. And there are the sweet little inducements--the flattery, the invitations to conferences in Austria and Italy, the lectureships at Yale and Harvard--that come to judges who soften and crumble. Harriet Miers is a taut, nervous, anxious personality. It is hard for me to imagine that she can endure the anger and abuse--or resist the blandishments--that transformed, say, Anthony Kennedy into the judge he is today
2,564 posted on 10/03/2005 2:32:57 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: JCEccles
Stevens is a well-preserved corpse.

If he runs the table-and serves for the remaining three years of President Bush's term-I'll eat my hat.

But first I'll have to purchase a hat.

:0)

2,565 posted on 10/03/2005 2:33:14 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("I'm okay with being unimpressive. It helps me sleep better.")
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To: ConservativeDude

Thanks.

She says thanks too!


2,566 posted on 10/03/2005 2:33:40 PM PDT by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - I will never take Dix off of my ping list as I have been asked to do.)
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To: JCEccles

If your first sentence is meant to implicate me, you are a total idiot. I didn't read any farther.


2,567 posted on 10/03/2005 2:34:41 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: HAL9000
Wm. Rehnquist had no judicial experience when President Nixon nominated him.

And if William Rehnquist was nominated to day the Democrats - and not a few Republicans - would use that against him.

2,568 posted on 10/03/2005 2:35:33 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Eaker

"Being the right political "fit" is good for nothing. "

Yeah we are definitely on the same page :)


2,569 posted on 10/03/2005 2:36:04 PM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

I haven't seen too many deleted posts. I think we're behaving pretty well.


2,570 posted on 10/03/2005 2:36:04 PM PDT by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org Daily Newsfeeds & Weekly Update)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Stevens is a well-preserved corpse.

Some of us remember William O. Douglas.

Liberals like Stevens simply refuse to die once they get a SCOTUS seat.

2,571 posted on 10/03/2005 2:36:07 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: montag813

"Why is Bush so scared to put a Rogers-Brown up there and win the battle of ideas--Americans overwhelmingly support our side"

I couldn't agree with you more. To be honest I like Roberts but in my dreamworld Bush's choices would have been Luttwig-Brown. We control both houses of Congress and the Executive Branch...why not be greedy and go for Judicial Branch too. It's outta control in my opinion anyway!


2,572 posted on 10/03/2005 2:36:21 PM PDT by YoungBlackRepublican ("I imagine a world of love, peace, and no wars. Then attacking it cause they wouldn't expect it!)
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To: Eaker
I'm supposed to respond to that drivel?

Barbi dolls?? ROFLOL! That's the stupidest insult I've ever read on FR. LOL!

2,573 posted on 10/03/2005 2:36:33 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: jdm
No one definitely knows anyone's predetermined position for certain except God.

As I stated in my post, I don't have enough information about Ms. Meirs to form an opinion.

2,574 posted on 10/03/2005 2:36:53 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Bump!


2,575 posted on 10/03/2005 2:37:08 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: rwfromkansas
You do know she fought against the Bar trying to take a pro-choice stance?

I've been trying to get some details on that, such as one of the letters that she sent from the Texas Bar to the ABA. Seems the pro-choice resolution had some history to it, not "passing" the first time it was proposed. Oh, I haven't found the resolution either.

THE FEMINIST CHRONICLES - 1990

The American Bar Association (ABA) rescinded the policy it adopted in February opposing legislation that interfered with a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy at any time before viability or thereafter to protect her life or health. The ABA adopted a policy that it characterized as "neutral," taking no position on abortion. (08/90)

http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1990.html


Travis County Women Lawyers' Association (TCWLA) announced publicly in March 1990 its support of the right of women to make their own reproductive choices. This announcement was a direct response to a letter by the president of the State Bar of Texas to the American Bar Association (ABA) denouncing the ABA's adoption of a pro-choice resolution.

http://www.tcwla.org/aboutus.html

The resolution was adopted in 1992, and again was objected to by the Texas Bar.

But, in any event, I think Miers' participation is as the person who represents the interests of the Texas bar, and her actions as such don't necessarily reflect her personal point of view. Quite a few ABA memvbers resigned from the ABA when the resolution was passed. Miers did not resign.

2,576 posted on 10/03/2005 2:37:11 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: conservativepoet
If she does not have a conservative philosophy, then I'll protest.

Oh, that's cute. Protest Souter while you're at it...for what good that will do.

You ask me how do I know she isn't a conservative? It's not a question that conservatives should have been put in a position to answer.

Even the liberal Republicans know that Bush owed conservatives an unambiguous nominee.

2,577 posted on 10/03/2005 2:37:17 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (How do we prevent someone from torching his city if he will be rewarded as a lottery winner?)
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To: floriduh voter
It wasn't nasty at all. I trust HIS judgement, and I don't trust yours.

I've seen him work and lead, and I've seen you emote. Sorry, floriduh. In a contest between the comparative wisdom of the two of you, it's not even close.

(But the Bushbot insult, was really original. Nice work).

2,578 posted on 10/03/2005 2:38:43 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: ohioWfan
Nothin personal, but it appears that your grip is slippin. If your first sentence is meant to implicate me, you are a total idiot. I didn't read any farther.
2,579 posted on 10/03/2005 2:39:28 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (The Land o' Gar (yes I have a gunrack in my truck))
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To: ohioWfan
If your first sentence is meant to implicate me, you are a total idiot. I didn't read any farther.

No, not an idiot. far from it. But I am observant.

Go ahead and read the rest. It won't hurt you.

2,580 posted on 10/03/2005 2:40:24 PM PDT by JCEccles
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