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Since Senate Democrats insist that no nominee to serve on the Supreme Court can express any doubts about the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision universally legalizing abortion by overturning every state law placing limits on the practice, President Bush has been forced to appoint individuals who cannot recall ever having an opinion on this crucial issue. First John Roberts and now Harriet Meiers, Bush's two nominees for openings on the Supreme Court, have both replied to questions regarding this famous case asserting that they cannot recall ever discussing it. While this hardly seems plausible, President Bush says he fully accepts...

DALLAS - The Roman Catholic diocese of Dallas is setting the record straight: Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has never been a Catholic. Acquaintances of Miers have said she worshipped as a Catholic and attended Episcopalian and Presbyterian services. For some 25 years, Miers has been a congregant at Valley View Christian Church where in 1979 she was baptized by full immersion, consistent with the evangelical church's beliefs.Recently, she and about 150 of the church's 1,200 active members formed a separate congregation after a disagreement about worship styles.After news media reported that Miers, a longtime Dallas lawyer, had attended Catholic...

Friends, Americans, bloggers, lend me your earsI come to bury Miers, not to confirm her.The evil that Justices do lives after them;The good is oft preserved by rejecting their nominations;So let it be with Miers. The noble Bush hath told you Harriet is conservative;If it be so, 'tis a glorious qualification,And gloriously may Miers answer it in her hearings.Here, under leave of Bush and the rest,--For Bush is an honorable man;So are they all, all honorable men,--Come I to speak before Miers' hearings. She was an unknown, undistinguished and of no importance to me:But Bush says she is conservative;And Bush...