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Questions About Miers that Bush Needs to Answer by Phyllis Schlafly Posted Oct 14, 2005 If John G. Roberts' confirmation hearing is any guide, we won't learn anything from Harriet Miers' confirmation hearing. So here are some questions we would like President Bush to answer. You said, "Trust me." But why should we trust you when experience proves we could not trust the judgment of President Reagan (who gave us Justices O'Connor and Kennedy) or President George H.W. Bush (who gave us Justice Souter)? Are you more trustworthy than Reagan or your father? You said, "She's not going to change.......

A Double Democratic Litmus Test by Terence P. Jeffrey Posted Aug 17, 2005 Will a Republican President ever again name a non-stealth conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court? Or will liberal Democrats succeed in imposing not one, but two, Litmus tests on Supreme Court nominations? The first prospective Litmus test is that Democratic presidents, deferring to the liberal base of the Democratic Party, will name only publicly pro-abortion justices to the Supreme Court. The second prospective Litmus test is that Republican presidents, preferring to avoid a major political brawl with the liberal base of the Democratic Party (and their allies...

Roberts and death penalty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com For many years now, the U.S. Supreme Court has been used as the political playground of activists who could never get their causes approved by a popular vote of the people or through the legislative process. In 1973, activists got their way when the court struck down popular legal restrictions on abortion in most states. In 1996 in the Romer v. Evans ruling, the court overturned a provision of the Colorado constitution approved by voters in the state that denied special group rights on the...