Kandidaat supreme court nooit rechter geweest.

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The woman President Bush appointed this week as White House counsel, Harriet Miers, is hardly known in Washington but has a history in Texas of handling years of scandal at the state's lottery commission. The president, who once retained her as his personal lawyer, described her in 1996 as ''a pit bull in Size 6 shoes.''

Those attributes should help her in a new job that requires her to advise Mr. Bush not only on national security and military law -- a large part of the counsel's responsibilities since Sept. 11, 2001 -- but also on continuing legal investigations, including an inquiry into who in the administration leaked the name of a C.I.A. undercover officer.

''She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played,'' said one friend, Joseph M. Allbaugh, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ''She will give the president advice unvarnished, and that's exactly what he wants.''

Ms. Miers, 59, currently serves as deputy chief of staff for policy and assistant to the president. She has rarely, if ever, talked to reporters since arriving in Washington in 2001, and she declined a request for an interview on Friday.

But her history, and comments from friends, suggest that she is the kind of woman, like Karen P. Hughes and Condoleezza Rice, whom Mr. Bush likes on his staff: tough, direct and intensely loyal. Her appointment reflects the president's determination to promote longtime members of his inner circle to critical positions for his second term.

''Harriet Miers is a trusted adviser on whom I have relied for straightforward advice,'' Mr. Bush said in a statement released this week. ''Harriet has the keen judgment and discerning intellect necessary to be an outstanding counsel.'' In 1995, Mr. Bush, then in his first months as governor of Texas, appointed Ms. Miers to a six-year term as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission. Ms. Miers unexpectedly resigned after five years that were marked by controversy and the dismissal of two executive directors of the commission. The first executive director, Nora Linares, was fired in 1997 when it became public that her boyfriend had worked for the company that held the contract to operate the lottery. Ms. Linares's successor was dismissed after only five months when he began reviewing campaign contributions of state legislators without the commission's knowledge. Despite the problems, as well as the lottery's declining sales, The Dallas Morning News praised Ms. Miers when she resigned in 2000 for ''preserving the operations' integrity.'' Ms. Miers, who is unmarried, was born and raised in Dallas, one of five children whose father was in the real estate business. She graduated from Southern Methodist University and its law school, then went to work in Dallas for Locke Purnell Rain Harrell. In 1985 she became the first woman to be president of the Dallas Bar Association, and in 1992 the first woman to be president of the Texas State Bar. She became the president of Locke Purnell in 1996, the first woman to lead a major Texas law firm. In 1998, she presided over the merger of Locke Purnell with another big Texas firm, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, and became co-managing partner of the resulting megafirm, Locke Liddell & Sapp.

In 2001, Mr. Bush brought Ms. Miers to Washington with him as his staff secretary, a little known but powerful job in which she handled much of the paper flow to the president. Ms. Miers is a regular guest at Camp David and is often the only woman who accompanies Mr. Bush and male staff members in long brush-cutting and cedar-clearing sessions at the president's ranch.

Ms. Miers has an extremely low profile in Washington. She was better known in Texas, where Governor Bush introduced her when she received the Anti-Defamation League's Jurisprudence Award in 1996.

''When it comes to cross-examination,'' Mr. Bush said then, ''she can fillet better than Mrs. Paul.''

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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 14:05 schreef DrMarten het volgende:
Dit is wel redelijk bizar idd. Ik mag toch hopen dat er een regel is dat iemand een bepaalde periode rechter is geweest

Wat is je bron overigens?

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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 15:09 schreef Doderok het volgende:

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Er is wel een verschil tussen rechten studeren of rechter worden
De meeste advocaten hebben wel degelijk enige opleiding genoten..

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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 14:35 schreef Doderok het volgende:

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Het Witte Huis kan zo veel beweren...

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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 14:31 schreef Finder_elf_towns het volgende:
CNN meldde dat er ook democraten zijn die haar benoeming steunen. Aan het waarheidsgehalte dat de vrouw een politiek maatje is kan dus ernstig getwijfeld worden. Democratische steun is overigens niet nodig voor haar benoeming.

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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 13:46 schreef Doderok het volgende:
Bush heeft een kandidaat gekozen om Sandra Day O'Connor te vervangen bij het opperste gerechtshof in de VS.
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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 16:29 schreef Doderok het volgende:

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Dat was de planning, maar Rehnquist stierf op het verkeerde moment
Roberts kan niet de opvolger van O'Connor zijn aangezien ze momenteel beiden in het gerechtshof zetelen.
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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 13:46 schreef Doderok het volgende:
Bush heeft een kandidaat gekozen om Sandra Day O'Connor te vervangen bij het opperste gerechtshof in de VS. Het gaat om Harriet Miers, adviseur van het Witte Huis en vertrouwelinge van George Bush.
Zij leidde de zoektocht van het Witte Huis naar nieuwe kandidaten voor het hooggerechtshof en is het nu blijkbaar zelf geworden.
Met vier 'progressieve' en vier 'conservatieve' rechters zou zij de beslissende stem kunnen hebben in zaken betreffende abortus, euthanasie, de doodstraf, vrije meningsuiting etc.

wanneer een nieuwe nominee bekend raakt duikt men gewoonlijk in zijn/haar verleden om te voorspellen hoe hij/zij in belangrijke zaken zou stemmen. Ditt is in Meirs geval moeilijker aangezien zij nooit rechter is geweest.

Ben ik de enige die dit bijzonder vreemd vindt? Voor zo'n positie zou je toch iemand met enige ervaring verwachten. Als senator heb je niet veel om je op te baseren als je voor of tegen haar moet stemmen...

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Miers Opposed Repeal Of Anti-Gay Texas Sodomy Law



(Washington) A document signed by Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers when she was a candidate for Dallas City Council in 1989 surfaced Monday night and is raising concerns among LGBT civil rights advocates.

In it Miers says she believes that gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as non gay men and women but would oppose repeal of the Texas sodomy law. The law was later struck down by the US supreme Court (story) The sixth vote in the split ruling was by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the judge Bush has nominated Miers to succeed.

Miers statements were made in response to a series of questions posed to all candidates for council by the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas. The coalition is no longer in existence. A copy of the questionnaire was provided to 365Gay.com Monday night by the Human Rights Campaign.

On HIV/AIDS issues Miers was asked if she believes the city has a responsibility to fund AIDS education and patient support services. She answered yes. Asked if she would support raising the ceiling on the amount the city spends she also said yes, adding a caveat that it would depend on the available money in the city budget.

When asked if she would support a nondiscrimination ordinance to protect minorities including gays Miers hedged, replying that she believed it was an issue for the Texas legislature.

The form also asked if she sought the group's endorsement and checked off a box indicating no, although she agreed to attend a candidate screening session. The form was signed by Miers on March 28, 1989.

At the time Miers, like most Texans was a Democrat. In 1988 she was a contributor to Al Gore's first presidential campaign but later became a Republican and staunch Bush supporter.

Louise Young, a founding member of the Lesbian/Gay Coalition said she thought it odd that someone who was not seeking the group's endorsement would bother coming to a screening session.

"Usually, if you bothered to come, you wanted our endorsement," Young said Monday night. "She came to talk to us anyway. I thought that was very odd."

Although the document is 16 years old it does provide an indication of Miers' mindset on LGBT issues.

"The questionnaire raises a lot of questions," Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese told 365Gay.com. "It heightens the need for Senators to be thorough and comprehensive in their questioning. This provides a road map of questioning for Senators."

"Its a very troubling document," Michael Adams, director of Education and Public Affairs at Lambda Legal told 365Gay.com.

"The fact is that Lambda Legal spent years trying to get rid of the Texas law so to see a statement from Harriet Miers supporting the law is troubling even if the statement is 16 years old. This certainly raises some specific questions and is going to add to the importance of her confirmation hearings."

On Monday, shortly after Bush announced Miers' nomination Lambda, HRC and other LGBT civil rights groups called for a full investigation of her positions as White House Counsel on gay issues, (story) including what advice she gave to the President on the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.

The mixed signals contained in the old questionnaire are more insightful than anything presented during John Roberts' nomination process for Chief Justice. Miers has never sat on the bench and does not have a judicial paper trail, but, Roberts who has been a judge has never ruled in an LGBT rights case.

Although Roberts provided pro bono legal advice on behalf of a gay group he has stated that as a lawyer it was his duty to advocate for a client whether or not he agreed with the client's position.

The White House refused to provide documents on what advice Roberts gave as a White House aide to either the first or second president Bush. It is expected the administration will refuse a similar request for documents concerning Miers.

Miers is 60 and has never married. If confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate she would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the nation's highest court and the third to serve there. Miers was the first woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar.

As president of the Texas State Bar in 1993, she was a leader in an effort to persuade the American Bar Association - the nation's largest lawyers' group - to reconsider its pro-abortion-rights stance.

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Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2005 12:44 schreef Tarak het volgende:

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Bron: http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100405miers.htm

Tegenstander van het recht op abortus, qua visie op homorechten een beetje dubbel. Enerzijds voor gelijke rechten tussen homoseksuelen en heteroseksuelen anderszijds was ze niet tegen de "Texas sodomy law" die pas recent door Lawrence vs Texas neergesabeld werd door de Supreme Court (6-3). Met de vermelding dat de vragenlijst over gelijke rechten voor homoseksuelen al 16 jaar oud is, en mensen in zestien jaar van mening kunnen veranderen.

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Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2005 12:55 schreef numero_uno het volgende:

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oftewel een bush zuigertje

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Op woensdag 5 oktober 2005 22:56 schreef Doderok het volgende:

Zo'n berichten doen me altijd denken aan Jim Jones of David Koresh

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2005 19:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En logisch, dit soort vriendjespolitiek kon zelfs volgens veel republikeinen niet door de beugel.

Wat een afgang voor Bush.

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2005 16:22 schreef Doderok het volgende:
Ze heeft haar kandidatuur ingetrokken.

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2005 23:37 schreef Martijn_77 het volgende:

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