Harriet Miers,  Politics,  Supreme Court

Harriet Miers Watch: Miers Opposes Abortion, Specter to Question Miers’ Qualifications

Supreme Court Justice nominee Harriet Miers, left, walks with her brother Jeb Miers, right, and sister-in-law Liz Lang-Miers, center, on their way to church services at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2005.

The ASSociated Press has Specter to Question Miers’ Qualifications.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has said he is confident Miers opposes abortion, based on conversations he has had with the White House.

So, now we hear from Arlen Specter, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Will the Leftie Senators be far behind?

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he plans to vigorously question Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers about her qualifications because she has not proved to him she can handle the weighty issues that come before the high court.

“I think she may well turn out to be the best qualified once we give her a chance to be heard,” Specter said on ABC’s “This Week.” “But when you deal in constitutional law, you’re dealing in some very esoteric, complicated subjects that require a great deal of background.”

“The jurisprudence is very complicated, and I will be pressing her very hard on these issues,” he said.

Sounds patronizingly SEXIST to Flap. But, will any women’s groups say so?

NO!

Specter said he would ask during the hearings whether Miers had privately given assurances to conservatives that she would overturnRoe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that gave women a constitutional right to an abortion.

Definitely a STEALTH candidate.

Flap having been there and done that….. we will have to take the President’s word and wait.

But, her long time friend, Judge Hecht has a different take, ‘Pro-life’ Miers to be unbiased on US court -ally.

“She is pro-life, and she has been for 25 years,” Nathan Hecht, a Texas Supreme Court justice and Miers’ longtime friend, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Asked how Miers, with that view, could conceivably vote to uphold the
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to abortion, Hecht said, “legal issues and personal issues are just two different things. Judges do it all the time.”

“In fact, a judge is going to take an oath that says I’m going to judge rightly in cases, which means that you have to set aside your personal views in deciding the case,” he said.

So, is Harriet Miers trying to have her cake and eat it too? This reminds flap of Mario Cuomo explaining his HYPOCRITICAL views on abortion while remaining a Catholic.

Stay tuned for a brutal Senate confirmation.

Hugh Hewitt answers some conservative critics of Harriet Miers, What Do The Critics of the Miers Nomination Want?

But, will these arguments be enough to call off the RIGHT dogs?

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