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Submitted on:2005-10-09Signatures gathered:191Category:Political We, the undersigned, believe that the single most important job of the United States Senate is to protect and defend the Constitution. The appointment of Harriet Miers, an unqualified political crony with no proven judicial philosophy or experience, would put our Constitutional rights in immediate danger. Therefore, we urge every US Senator to oppose the Miers nomination and force President George W. Bush to appoint a proven, well-qualified conservative to the nation's highest court. To fill out this petition, Click Here!!

Supreme Court confirmation battles usually involve excavations of the nominee's judicial opinions, legal briefs and decades-old government memos. Harriet Miers is the first nominee to hit trouble because of thank-you letters. Miers's paper trail may be relatively short, but it makes plain that her climb through Texas legal circles and into George W. Bush's inner circle was aided by a penchant for cheerful personal notes. Years later, even some of her supporters are cringing -- and her opponents are viciously making merry -- at the public disclosure of this correspondence and other writings from the 1990s. Bush may have enjoyed...

Harriet Miers will be confirmed. As the reality of the Miers nomination and the near-inevitability of her confirmation sinks in, we are left only to look for positive signs that she will pleasantly surprise us. What else is there to do? I am done complaining. (God knows, I have done my share of complaining.) That said, I have a working theory that Miers may turn out to be a reliable conservative vote on the Supreme Court.My reasoning goes like this:The Three Most Critical Considerations 1. President Bush has consistently nominated top-notch conservatives to various benches. His track record is very...

Sandra Day O'Connor resigned from the Supreme Court in July, the White House reached out to an informal network of conservative lawyers and academics to help build support for the next nominee. The group of about three dozen worked smoothly during the confirmation battle over John Roberts, plotting strategy in conference calls with administration officials and penning newspaper op-eds. Michael A. Carvin, the lawyer who argued the president's case in Bush v. Gore before the Florida Supreme Court, was riled by a newspaper article about Miers. The story reported that Miers had once been quoted saying she wouldn't belong to...

I was really, really hoping that Bush would start a big fight and pick Janice Rogers Brown for the supreme court nomination. He didn't. He picked a woman that he trusts and believes will represent a judicial constraint, conservative position. I am disappointed. But........ I am not going to trash the woman. I am not going to whine and cry that the Republican Party is doomed. I am not going to play into the hands of the Democrats who would love to see Republicans tear their own person down. {like the anti-war folks who trash our troops because they are...

Today's Chronicle of Higher Education has a story that describes Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' involvement with a lecture series at her alma mater, SMU Law School. The inaugural lecturer? Gloria Steinem. I've played these games in law schools, and this story sends up red flags for me. Here's my take on it ... I was reserving judgment, but after having read the Chronicle article (and given conservatives' skittishness about her already), I think she's a non-starter. Miers may be a very nice person - and by all accounts she is. But she has never served as a judge, and...

Vice President Dick Cheney: "I Think [President Bush Has] Found A Good One In Harriet Miers. I Think She'll Do A Great Job." (Vice President Dick Cheney, Telephonic Interview By Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/3/05) Cheney: "[I]'m Confident That She Has A Conservative Judicial Philosophy ..." (Vice President Dick Cheney, Telephonic Interview By Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/3/05) Cheney: "She Believes Very Deeply In The Importance Of Interpreting The Constitution And The Law As It's Written. She Won't Legislate From The Federal Bench." (Vice President Dick Cheney, Telephonic Interview By Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show,...

We are unquestionably the majority party; the Republican party controls Washington and most states. However, this grip on power is more fleeting that we'd like to believe and we need some triage before 2006. [snip] With Rep. Tom DeLay's forced departure as majority leader, Newt Gingrich says, the Republican Party stands at a crossroads as important as any it has faced since nominating Ronald Reagan for president in 1980... Which path the GOP now takes may determine... whether it can hold the White House in 2008...[snip] Talk like that has demoralized much of the Republican base. With nearly all Democrats...