Miers supported affirmative action: paper

[RepublicanElephant]

this ends her nomination.

"U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers supported affirmative action goals in the early 1990s when she served as president of the State Bar of Texas, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the lawyers' association supported racial and gender set-asides and numerical targets for jobs, the newspaper reported."
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-10-22T054605Z_01_ROB861372_RTRUKOC_0_US-COURT-MIERS.xml

[journalist3072]

1. A slight correction here..

Miers qualified her support of affirmative action. She wanted to limit the definition of affirmative action to only cover social and political climbers like herself!

[rodeodance]

2. um... we might get a worse nominee.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. "...might get a worse nominee"?

Regardless of who becomes nominated, or "crony-ated" as it were, AFTER Miers is not approved, (hopefully. the senate is not THAT stupid....), it's important to remember what's at stake here. If given the nod and a wink to move her to SCOTUS status, our nation will continue for many years to come to be subjected to and influenced by the Bush "Xtian Belief" bullshit and GOP/PNAC tactics. It's bad enough that Roberts was handed the position of Chief Justice. Should Miers become a SCOTUS judge, we can continue to look forward to our laws being amended to suit the conservative Xtian Right, and our amendment rights to be undermined even more than the destruction already brought upon them through the Bush cabal rule.

"...might get a worse nominee"? Were you being sarcastic?

IMO, this is a very serious matter, and another person needs to be nominated AFTER Miers is ditched. And it it's a "worse nominee", after this BS with Miers, it could be the Senate will not tolerate more of the same crap, and will not confirm that person either.

IMO, IF Bush has any type of decent private counsel, he will next nominate someone who provides a safety net for his poll numbers free fall. However, I personally hope the twerp continues to make bad choices and moves himself into a corner where he has to resign.