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October 3, 2005

Bush's Supreme Court Pick (Update)

Topics: Supreme Court

President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday.

Miers is already off to a rocky start.

Captain Ed comments, "Miers may make a great stealth candidate, but right now she looks more like a political ploy. Color me disappointed in the first blush."

CommonWealth Conservative is less restrained:

I'll tell you this: I want to see more about Miers, but what I have seen so far makes me sick to my stomach. As a friend of mine said, if runaway spending, a medicare prescription bill that just might bankrupt us, No Child Left Behind, and a host of other burdens expanding government weren't enough, now we can be sure that President George W. Bush is no conservative.
Update: Krempasky at Redstate isn't very happy either: Mr. President, you've got some explaining to do. And please remember - we've been defending you these five years because of this moment.

Another Update:

World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky interviewed Nathan Hecht, the Texas Supreme Court justice who is a pro-life hero for strongly supporting parental notification. Hecht is a friend of Supreme Court justice nominee Harriet Miers and served as an elder in her church.

Related to her stand on abortion, here is what Hecht said:

On abortion, choosing his words carefully for an on-the-record statement, he says "her personal views are consistent with that of evangelical Christians... You can tell a lot about her from her decade of service in a conservative church."
Olasky also questioned Hecht on Miers support of the Democratic party.

More responses at prolifeblogs.com.




Posted by tim at October 3, 2005 10:24 AM


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