President Bush:
"...I nominated her to the bench; ....she will not legislate from the bench but strictly interpret the Constitution."
H Miers 10/3/05:
"The wisdom of those who drafted our constitution and conceived our nation as functioning with three strong and independent branches have proven truly remarkable. It is the responsibility of every generation to be true to the founders' vision of the proper role of the courts in our society. If confirmed, I recognize that I will have a tremendous responsibility to keep our judicial system strong, and to help ensure that the courts meet their obligations to strictly apply the laws and the Constitution. "
Either you believe both Bush & Miers, or you don't.
If you don't believe them, then you are calling them liars -
something their Christian faith asks them to avoid.
There's the rub.
If you don't believe them, then you are calling them liars
something their Christian faith asks them to avoid.
Well, I guess we can just seat her then. That was easy.
The fact that you want to have hearings means you think they might be liars, how's them apples?
On the legal end, meanwhile, do you think George Bush finds both Alberto Gonzales and Priscilla Owen to " ... not legislate from the bench but strictly interpret the [law] ..."? Both of those names appear on his "short lists." Because, in my analysis, it is not possible for both of them to be "strictly interpreting legislative intent" when the two of them came out on opposites of the same case, and the case turned on interpretation (or application) of the words in the statute book.